{"id":37770,"date":"2013-09-30T07:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37770"},"modified":"2013-09-30T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:47:45","slug":"mraps-in-your-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37770","title":{"rendered":"MRAPs in your hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"

USAToday<\/a> writes that the feds have been giving away MRAPs, the mine-resistant ambush-protected trucks that are coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan to your local police departments;<\/p>\n

MRAPs did their job saving the lives of thousands of troops from roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, they’ll be hitting the mean streets of Columbus, Ohio, where campus police at The Ohio State University can presumably bust beer bashes with the behemoths. Cops in Madison, Wis., another Big Ten party town, can presumably do the same with theirs.<\/p>\n

They’re free. Mostly. Which is a pretty good deal considering a fully tricked-out MRAP with bomb-signal jammers, radios and a .50-caliber machine gun in the turret can run about $1 million.<\/p>\n

But like buying a new car, there’s a destination charge involved, according to Mimi Schirmacher, a spokeswoman for the Defense Logistics Agency. If local police or state government pay shipping costs and justify the need, DLA is happy to put them behind the wheel of a 37,000-pound MaxxPro from Navistar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My biggest concern, among many that I have about this subject, is that criminals will take this as a challenge to up their games. I also think that the government should at least charge the police departments some money, provide some kind of reimbursement, anyway. Perhaps paying a couple hundred thousand dollars for these beasts would discourage police departments from looking like they’re at war with the rest of us. I’m all for saving lives, but do the police really need a vehicle designed to counter IEDs? And what the hell are campus security<\/a> going to do with them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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