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Biden & Feinstein Lied About Fewer Police Deaths During the AWB
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<blockquote data-quote="Raoul Duke" data-source="post: 2097072" data-attributes="member: 27529"><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/no-mr-vice-president-cops_n_2568497.html" target="_blank">No, Mr. Vice President. Cops Today Are Not 'Outgunned.'</a></p><p></p><p><em>Biden has also long been a champion of the federal COPS and Byrne grant programs that have contributed to the massive rise in SWAT teams across the country -- and have given rise to drug war debacles like those in Hearne and Tulia, Texas. Obama and Biden campaigned on refunding both programs and indeed, under the Obama administration both programs have been funded at record levels.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The other trend that puts the lie to Biden's comments is that police officers themselves have grown increasingly heavily armed over the last 30 years. Cops aren't outgunned at all. Not only has there been a massive growth in the number and use of SWAT teams since the early 1980s, but patrol cops are also more likely to carry weapons with higher-capacity magazines and higher-caliber ammunition.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In fact, just a few days after Biden's Google+ hangout comments, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a report on the Pentagon bounty acquired by Georgia police departments under the federal 1033 program, which has sent millions (yes, millions) of pieces of surplus military equipment to domestic police departments across the country.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Among the paper's findings:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The Waycross Police Department, which has two armored personnel carriers and 16 M15 rifles.</em></p><p><em>The Cartersville Police Department, which has an armored personnel carrier and 17 M14 rifles.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The Doraville Police Department, which has an armored personnel carrier.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Newnan PD, which has an armored personnel carrier, 15 M16s and 12 M14s.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Clayton County PD, which has a helicopter, an armored truck, 11 M16s and five M14s.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Cobb County PD, which has an armored truck, 106 M16s and eight M14s. Cobb also has a second armored vehicle, which it bought using federal grant funds.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Newspapers across the country have been publishing reports like these for years. Police departments are also getting grenade launchers, tanks, and guns that shoot .50-caliber bullets.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In fact, the 1033 program has set new records under the Obama administration. In FY 2011, the program gave away more than $500 million in military equipment. That's $100 million more than it had given away in any previous year.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>And even the 1033 program is dwarfed by the flush of money the Department of Homeland Security has also been spending to arm America's police departments. The Center for Investigative Reporting published a survey in December 2011 which found that DHS has given away more than $31 billion in grants to local police departments since 2001, which the agencies have used to purchase armored personnel carriers, body armor, semiautomatic weapons, and other military-grade gear.</em></p><p></p><p>[video=youtube_share;Tt2yGzHfy7s]http://youtu.be/Tt2yGzHfy7s[/video]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raoul Duke, post: 2097072, member: 27529"] [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/no-mr-vice-president-cops_n_2568497.html"]No, Mr. Vice President. Cops Today Are Not 'Outgunned.'[/URL] [I]Biden has also long been a champion of the federal COPS and Byrne grant programs that have contributed to the massive rise in SWAT teams across the country -- and have given rise to drug war debacles like those in Hearne and Tulia, Texas. Obama and Biden campaigned on refunding both programs and indeed, under the Obama administration both programs have been funded at record levels. The other trend that puts the lie to Biden's comments is that police officers themselves have grown increasingly heavily armed over the last 30 years. Cops aren't outgunned at all. Not only has there been a massive growth in the number and use of SWAT teams since the early 1980s, but patrol cops are also more likely to carry weapons with higher-capacity magazines and higher-caliber ammunition. In fact, just a few days after Biden's Google+ hangout comments, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a report on the Pentagon bounty acquired by Georgia police departments under the federal 1033 program, which has sent millions (yes, millions) of pieces of surplus military equipment to domestic police departments across the country. Among the paper's findings: The Waycross Police Department, which has two armored personnel carriers and 16 M15 rifles. The Cartersville Police Department, which has an armored personnel carrier and 17 M14 rifles. The Doraville Police Department, which has an armored personnel carrier. Newnan PD, which has an armored personnel carrier, 15 M16s and 12 M14s. Clayton County PD, which has a helicopter, an armored truck, 11 M16s and five M14s. Cobb County PD, which has an armored truck, 106 M16s and eight M14s. Cobb also has a second armored vehicle, which it bought using federal grant funds. Newspapers across the country have been publishing reports like these for years. Police departments are also getting grenade launchers, tanks, and guns that shoot .50-caliber bullets. In fact, the 1033 program has set new records under the Obama administration. In FY 2011, the program gave away more than $500 million in military equipment. That's $100 million more than it had given away in any previous year. And even the 1033 program is dwarfed by the flush of money the Department of Homeland Security has also been spending to arm America's police departments. The Center for Investigative Reporting published a survey in December 2011 which found that DHS has given away more than $31 billion in grants to local police departments since 2001, which the agencies have used to purchase armored personnel carriers, body armor, semiautomatic weapons, and other military-grade gear.[/I] [video=youtube_share;Tt2yGzHfy7s]http://youtu.be/Tt2yGzHfy7s[/video] [/QUOTE]
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