{"id":54929,"date":"2014-09-02T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54929"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:41:11","slug":"palestine-ar-police-lose-humvee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54929","title":{"rendered":"Palestine, AR Police lose Humvee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poetrooper sends us a link from Yahoo News<\/a> that the police department of Palestine, Arkansas, population 700 souls, took a few days to notice that one of their Humvees that they’d recently acquired from the feds was missing. Apparently, the thief drove the vehicle with it’s distinctive paint job, unnoticed, into some trees and completely ruined it, but that’s OK, because now it’s a hanger queen for parts to fix the other one when it inevitably breaks down, says the Chief;<\/p>\n

In fact, at least three other police stations have misplaced or been robbed of their government-issued Humvees in the past five years. Weapons turn up missing, too. Yahoo News found that local police departments like Palestine’s have been suspended from the Pentagon 1033 program for misplacing at least 14 M16 assault rifles, 11 M14 assault rifles, 21 pistols and 10 shotguns. These figures don\u2019t come close to representing the total number of weapons that have been stolen or lost over the life of the program, however \u2014 a figure the Defense Department has not released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’m glad that the taxpayers’ money isn’t being wasted on frivolous stuff that the departments don’t need – or don’t mind losing. We used to have 19-year-old E-2s and -3s who could account for a few hundred weapons in an infantry company without error. That doesn’t make these police departments look particularly competent. Since when is an M14 an assault rifle? It’s not black or scary, in the most common configuration as I understand it to exist as an M14. Must be the flash suppressor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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