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dimanche 7 août 2022

USA Police Armored Car and SWAT - English Version

Why are the intervention units (Swat)
of the American Police are so militarized?

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During the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s, SWAT development expanded into American cities.

The time was right in the war on drugs against drug traffickers and dealers in the USA.

Cooperation between the U.S. Army and the Police has begun to intervene in dismantling and arresting clandestine labs.

Loans as well as equipment coming from the military surplus have allowed the American police forces in many states to equip themselves...

We can also note the flagrant increase of interventions of SWAT units in searches for drug cases: Indeed, in the 70's, an average of a hundred anti-drug operations were carried out per year, then a few thousand per year in the 80's, to over 50,000 per year in the 2000s.

Currently, more than 70% of their interventions are for drug investigations...

The "BYRNE program" in the late 1980s provided police departments in every state and city with funds to optimize SWAT security with better equipment, materials and training...

This will allow politicians to show their constituents where public funds go, as well as their efforts in the fight against drugs...

At the end of the 90's, the "1033 Program" of the PENTAGON will allow the sharing of military equipment of the American Army with the police, always with the idea of fighting against drugs...

as well as in services such as the FBI,

or the American Coast Guards.

A unique opportunity for Local Police Departments to buy equipment at very good prices. Indeed, if not purchased, the equipment offered at low prices is destroyed.

For example, MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle), these armored vehicles that have served in Afghanistan or Iraq, and whose new unit cost more than 500,000 dollars, are offered at 2,800 dollars... A bargain for small towns that dream of having their own SWAT unit...

Here the MRAP of the San Diego Unified School District, where very seriously the Captain of the Police in 2014 had indicated to the TV channel "NBC" that it would be used to deal with any hostile situation and get the children out....

However, routine maintenance of an MRAP is estimated at $10,000 to $12,000 per year.

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After September 11, 2001, US Departement of HOMELAND Security, the new U.S. Homeland Security Service, will change the focus of the funds distributed from the war on drugs to the prevention of terrorism...

In 2009, the "BYRNE" program is revitalized with more than $2 billion going to local cities and states to purchase custom response vehicles...