There has been an ongoing debate about how local law enforcement departments are becoming more militarised. A controversial federal program allows surplus equipment to get recycled or rather passed ...

Other Oregon police agencies, however, have tapped into military equipment that’s no longer wanted by the federal government. Steve Smith, state coordinator for federal surplus programs, said Oregon ...

The Trump administration is set to restart a program that allows the flow of certain types of surplus military equipment and weapons to state and local law enforcement. The so-called militarization of ...

This article first appeared in EdSource. University of California police departments are replenishing their inventories of military-grade equipment, including drones, ammunition and pepper ball rounds ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Over the last four years Texas police departments received 206,000 pieces of gear from the military, including 1,805 military rifles. In our area,102 military rifles are spread among ...