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Delivery of military equipment to American police will be reviewed
Posted On 25 Aug 2014
EFE
President Barack Obama has ordered a review of programs that allow local and state police forces obtain the Defense Department military equipment that is left over.
The review was ordered after two weeks of protests that began over the death of young black man Michael Brown Ferguson (Missouri), where protesters faced a police equipped with assault rifles and military vehicles.
The study, led by the White House, “will consider whether the government should continue providing such equipment and, if so, whether local authorities have sufficient training to use them properly.”
Obama has said that part of this policy has been “useful”, but mentioned “that it is probably useful to review how the financing has worked (of this practice) to make sure that the purchased material they really need is being purchased.”
This measure was justified after the attacks of 11-S in 2001.
