Average Americans do not want to live in militarized cities. If the Department of Defense has too much money for hardware, maybe they can return those funds to reduce the national debt.
"1033 Program" that gave more than $500 million of military gear to US police in 2011 alone. This upswing coincides with an increasingly military-like style of law-enforcement most recently seen in the Occupy Wall Street crackdowns.
Tim Lynch, director of the Cato Institute's project on criminal justice told The Daily, “The trend toward militarization was well under way before 9/11, but it’s the federal policy of making surplus military equipment available almost for free that has poured fuel on this fire.”
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