Pentagon has funneled billions in military vehicles, weapons to local police
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Pentagon has funneled billions in military vehicles, weapons to local police
The high plains and rugged mountains of Wyoming arent exactly synonymous with high crime rates or modern warfare, much less the kinds of mass protests currently roiling the country. But police agencies in the sparsely populated state have been arming themselves to the teeth in recent years.
Just 80,000 people reside in sprawling Natrona County, home of the city of Casper, yet the county sheriffs office has scored three military-style armored trucks since 1997 worth a combined $195,000, plus a $126,000 cargo carrier. The sheriffs office in nearby Campbell County, which has just 48,000 residents, helped itself to a $658,000 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, or MRAP, in 2013 and a $733,000 version the following year. In the capital city of Cheyenne, police ordered a pair of MRAPs worth a combined $1.42 million.
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