Re:Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to min...
by handrous on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:42PM
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Maybe looks are deceiving, but officers and their vehicles sure look like they're having a whole lot more money spent on them than they were in, say, the 90s. They have more stuff, it all looks fairly new, and it all looks slicker, meaner, and more "apart" from normal folks, than it used to. I'm not talking about SWAT or armored cars or any of that stuff, either, but normal stuff that ordinary officers wear, carry, and drive.
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Re:Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to min...
by Firehawke on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:21PM
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This. The rules that allow them to confiscate and sell or use materials deemed to be "having been used in aid of committing a crime" means the funding is actually drastically higher than it once was.
High enough for them to buy APCs for staging public relations events.