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The scenes from Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday night appeared to be right out of Iraq or Afghanistan, with heavily armed men on military vehicles and armored personnel carriers peering through night-vision goggles into a smoke-filled landscape. At least one officer knelt behind a tripod-mounted rifle, apparently at the ready to open fire if ordered to do so.
The resemblance between the near and the far was no accident, as some of the military gear and weaponry in the hands of Ferguson police likely came from the Pentagon, as did much of the materiel being used in those faraway military conflicts.
Local law enforcement agencies around the U.S. are eligible to receive surplus military equipment through the Defense Department’s 1033 program, whose motto is “from warfighter to crimefighter.” They also can purchase similar equipment through grants from the Department of Homeland Security.
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