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Note that the 1033 program has a "use it or lose it" provision. Police must use equipment they receive via this program or it's taken away. So they find reaso
by bcrosby95 6y ago
Note that the 1033 program has a "use it or lose it" provision. Police must use equipment they receive via this program or it's taken away. So they find reasons to use their toys.
- koheripbal 6y agoI wonder what the details around that are. So if I drive the APC on a training run once per year... is that "using it"? Have any of these departments actually lost any equipment? ie. is there any enforcement of that rule? Is it the actually equipment they must use, or is it the funding? ...because if it's the funding, that's a pretty standard accounting practice.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's the equipment, they must apply for a reason they need it and conduct audits to make sure they still have the item. The rule is in place to prevent requesting items and then selling them though. Even that is rarely enforced, I doubt anyone has been punished for not using something. The article mentions a department that keeps some guns permanently locked up because the DLA refused to take them back.