Totally as I predicted: Democrats in Congress are not going to stop this nonsense. This guarantees there will be more Michael Browns.
The 113th Congress will end without substantive changes to the program (1033 Program). The White House hasn’t announced the results of its policy review. The flow of billions in technology designed for the battlefield to local police forces will go on unabated.
“The fear is that this is some kind of moment that passed. It’s just another example of temporary interest in a crisis and inevitably things go back to normal,” said Radley Balko, a prominent expert on police militarization and author of the most cited book on the topic. “Looking at the history on this issue tends to make one cynical.”
Balko knows firsthand how serious the post-Ferguson militarization conversation was in Washington. Around the time Sen. Rand Paul published his August op-ed calling for a re-examination of programs that send military equipment to local police forces — making the Kentucky Republican the most prominent politician on demilitarization in the country — a member of Paul’s staff reached out to Balko to discuss his work on militarization.
FAIL.
Yet another example of failed, expensive policy which nobody in Congress intends to stop.
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