In October 2020, the Pentagon's Inspector General released a new report titled, "Audit of Excess Property Issued Through the Department of Defense Law Enforcement Support Program." Looking into just 15 of the 8,000 US police departments who have benefitted from the $7.4 billion dollars worth of excess military gear that's been handed down to them by the Department of Defense since 1990, the IG objectively concluded what any rational human could have figured out all along: there's literally no good reason for police departments to have second-hand military equipment. — Read the rest
