{"id":51178,"date":"2015-05-18T06:11:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/but-doesnt-every-police-department-need-an-armored-tracked-vehicle.html"},"modified":"2015-05-18T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:10:48","slug":"but-doesnt-every-police-department-need-an-armored-tracked-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/but-doesnt-every-police-department-need-an-armored-tracked-vehicle.html","title":{"rendered":"But doesn&#039;t every police department need an armored tracked vehicle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama will put in some long-overdue restrictions on military equipment being sold or given to local police forces. <i>&#39;He is taking the action after a task force he created in January decided that police departments should be barred from using federal funds to acquire items that include tracked armored vehicles, the highest-caliber firearms and ammunition, and camouflage uniforms.&#39;<\/i>  Other equipment will carry strings on it for training and reporting requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Fox headlines about how &quot;Obama seeks to disarm police.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/19\/us\/politics\/obama-to-limit-military-style-equipment-for-police-forces.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/_bP85RrdIixz_4Ux-pWjJDiIqjUs8PkdTFKcya-fmWAh1cty9NC0UjJ38GZJJ_Q5PCz0SmWzYYB4touzgPYHg8cEV3rcMig0wc6bUQhOXuLbXS9yVVTvzP6i58AyKNkJkhEGb-o=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/19\/us\/politics\/obama-to-limit-military-style-equipment-for-police-forces.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news'>Obama to Limit Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe ban is one of the steps the president has made to try to build trust between citizens and law enforcement agencies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/T4sbnjg9Huo'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama will put in some long-overdue restrictions on military equipment being sold or given to local police forces. &#39;He is taking the action after a task force he created in January decided that police departments should be barred from using federal funds to acquire items that include tracked armored vehicles, the highest-caliber firearms and ammunition, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/but-doesnt-every-police-department-need-an-armored-tracked-vehicle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But doesn&#039;t every police department need an armored tracked vehicle?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42467,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/militarizing-the-police-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":51178,"position":0},"title":"Militarizing the Police (part 2)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jun-14 5:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting video story that's connected to my post from yesterday, with the twist of talking about \"swatting\" -- prank calling a SWAT team to a house with a report of a grisly murder.While that part's a side light, it dilutes (or doesn't connect up) two key items:1. 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