Last month, Fusion found that 184 police agencies
across the U.S. had been suspended from the Pentagon's notorious
military-issue weaponry program for losing the guns they were given. The
news site visited nine California departments in search of their lost
armaments, with funny/sad results.The DOD's "1033" program-which
gained new scrutiny after the Ferguson riots raised questions about
cops' military-style up-armoring-has shoveled $4.3 billion in Humvees,
helos, guns, and grenade launchers to 8,000 or so police departments
since its inception in 1990. But for some reason, many of the free .45s
and M-14s keep disappearing from police armories, and cops have no good
answers:.
In April 2013, the Huntington Beach Police Department
was suspended from the Pentagon's 1033 equipment-sharing program after
they lost track of an M16 semi-automatic rifle. And they weren't the
only ones.
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