With protests over police brutality leading to calls for broad law enforcement reform, a decades-old program is facing renewed pressure from Congress to stem the flow of military equipment to police.
With protests over police brutality leading to calls for broad law enforcement reform, a decades-old Department of Defense program is facing renewed pressure from Congress to stem the flow of military equipment to police.
However, police have increasingly obtained other military-grade equipment such as riot gear and Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, the hulking, heavily-armored vehicles designed to withstand explosive blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such equipment has been spotted in Minneapolis and Spokane during protests sparked by the in-custody death of George Floyd, an unarmed, handcuffed black man who died as a police officer kept his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
Proponents of the 1033 Program have said it provides a tremendous cost-saving and puts taxpayer-funded equipment to good use. The nation’s largest police union has said it opposes further restrictions. Because they are relatively cheap, most of the so-called less-lethal projectiles — such as foam rounds, flash bangs and bean bag rounds — are purchased by police commercially.
Transfers grew more than 10-fold after 2006 as the U.S. military began offloading equipment no longer needed in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to data from the DLA, which administers the program. “They could have turned off the spigot completely. The military doesn’t enjoy this program and its headaches,” Kraska said. “The solution isn’t to reform it, it’s to stop it.”
Records show Arizona’s Department of Public Safety received several aircraft and trucks worth more than $55 million since 2011. California Highway Patrol received a $22 million aircraft in 2016. Kentucky State Police received a plane, helicopter, several armored trucks and more than 500 rifles since 2004, according to the data.In Willmar, Minn., population 19,600, police received a surplus diesel 2007 AM General up-armored Humvee from the military in August.
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