Policing

Transfers of military equipment to U.S local police will stop

The White House announced yesterday that it will ban federal transfers of armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, ammunition of 0.5 caliber or higher, and some types of camouflage uniforms to local police departments.Since Congress launched the 1033 Program in 1997 to make military equipment that the Pentagon no longer wants available to state and local police. About $4.3 billion worth of equipment has been distributed.