Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters?
by dragonwriter on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:24PM
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> The police aren't spending money on military-grade gear, they're being gifted surplus from the military.
They're spending money training on it, storing it, operating it, and organizing operations around it so that they can justify receiving and keeping it, as well as in personnel costs associated with the staff time devoted to doing the research, applications, etc., to be awarded it.
They may not be purchasing it, but its not appearing and hanging around without expenditure of department resources.
They're spending money training on it, storing it, operating it, and organizing operations around it so that they can justify receiving and keeping it, as well as in personnel costs associated with the staff time devoted to doing the research, applications, etc., to be awarded it.
They may not be purchasing it, but its not appearing and hanging around without expenditure of department resources.