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KRQE-TV.com - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The U.S. Military is donating millions of dollars worth of specialized equipment, hand-me-downs, to police departments throughout New Mexico. The military goes through a lot of helicopters, humvees, computers, even portable kitchens. But instead of sending that to the scrapyard, the equipment is being used by law enforcmenet. Police say the program has been in use for years -- it's how San Juan and Bernalillo Counties got helicopters -- but now departments are using it more than ever because of tight budgets. "What it does is put law enforcement in touch with military equipment that they can use for crime fighting, drug busts and also for search and rescue, " said NMSP Captain Michael Waring.
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NM police getting cool hand-me-downs
From KRQE-TV.com - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - The U.S. Military is donating millions of dollars worth of specialized equipment, hand-me-downs, to police departments throughout New Mexico. The military goes through a lot of helicopters, humvees, computers, even portable kitchens. But instead of sending that to the scrapyard, the equipment is being used by law enforcmenet. Police say the program has been in use for years -- it's how San Juan and Bernalillo Counties got helicopters -- but now departments are using it more than ever because of tight budgets. "What it does is put law enforcement in touch with military equipment that they can use for crime fighting, drug busts and also for search and rescue, " said NMSP Captain Michael Waring. Read more
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Militarizing the Cops is dangerous to the liberty of the people. They don't need military equipment. We don't need SWAT. We don't need humvees. We don't need cops in helicopters. Hell, if I had my way all the cops, except possibly HWP would be driving Hyundai cars because we don't need a bunch of idiots speeding around chasing offenders.
We have allowed the po-leese to get too militarized. Black hoods when serving no knock warrants lead to the destruction of liberty.
A top Constitutional judge once said that all warrants should be served during daylight hours with a minimal amount of disturbance. But not today because all these cops today have TWS and need tha rush of abusing the people.
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