Kevin Wilkinson, the police chief of Neenah, Wis., said having a vehicle built for combat would help protect his officers. Credit Darren Hauck for The New York Times
War Gear Flows to Police Departments -- New York Times
NEENAH, Wis. — Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.
The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.
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My Comment: Grenade launchers for small town police forces?!?!?!
Only explanation I can come across is getting ready for a war at homeland.. in case of an invasion on us territory. . Local police would be able to help counter an invasion with this equipment. . But it will be the heavy armed civilians in the us that would prevent such unlikely scenario. .
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