HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn - Tension is still high in Ferguson, Missouri after an officer shot and killed an unarmed man Friday night, but the lasting image of police, dressed and armed like military ...

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At 10:38 a.m. on Oct. 1, the first 911 call came into the Douglas County, Oregon, emergency communications center: Shots had been fired at Umpqua Community College. Within minutes, officers from the ...

There has been an ongoing debate about how local law enforcement departments are becoming more militarised. A controversial federal program allows surplus equipment to get recycled or rather passed ...

The same Pentagon program that provides surplus military equipment to local police departments has also provided heavy armor and weapons to school districts, and a group of civil rights groups are ...

Five years ago, thanks to a federal program that distributes surplus military equipment to local police, Bridgeport acquired a heavily armored vehicle capable of withstanding a mine blast. Other ...

Rep. Hank Johnson didn't like the Pentagon's surplus military transfer program long before Ferguson, Missouri, turned into a war zone. The Georgia Democrat, a member of the House Armed Services ...

This headline in Education Week kinda caught my eye: School Police in Los Angeles Will Give Up Grenade Launchers. That’s nice, I thought, the school district giving up its grenade launchers. Not much ...

Now is the time to cut the police, including cost share, but keep any free Army surplus equipment. There might be a few distant, ultraviolet city police forces with the urban values, loyalty and ...