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[div style="font-size:+1;font-weight:bold"]Military hand-me-downs: US police getting leftover armored trucks from Iraq
American law enforcement agencies have received 165 MRAPs – 18 ton, armored vehicles with gun turrets – this year, according to an AP investigation. Military officials say police have filed requests for 731 more, but none are available.
“It’s armored. It’s heavy. It’s intimidating. And it’s free,” Craig Apple, the sheriff of Albany County, told AP.
http://rt.com/usa/us-police-mraps-iraq-251/
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