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| Surplus military gear shouldn’t be scrapped just because of the way it looks |
| By washingtonpost.com- Jonathan Thompson |
| Published: 10/27/2015 |
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At 10:38 a.m. on Oct. 1, the first 911 call came into the Douglas County, Ore., emergency communications center: Shots had been fired at Umpqua Community College. Within minutes, officers from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the Oregon State Police and the local police were on the scene, some of them wearing military-issue camouflage Kevlar helmets and other apparel. Even as these officers were arriving at the scene of what turned out to be a massacre, a memo was being transmitted from the Justice Department that will prohibit the very equipment and uniforms they were using. Since 1997, the federal government has made surplus military equipment available to local law enforcement agencies. The 1033 Program has enabled law enforcement agencies to use equipment that would otherwise be scrapped: camouflage fatigues and firearms, as well as armored vehicles and even helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Read More. |
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