An Indio Officer arrested a driver after finding fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine and a 12-gauge shotgun in a vehicle ...

SAN DIEGO — The use of military weapons and equipment by San Diego police would face greater scrutiny and be more transparent to the public under a new policy Mayor Todd Gloria says he will ...

Banned will be tracked armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, and large-caliber weapons and ammunition. "So we're going to prohibit some equipment made for the ...

Assault weapons. Armored trucks. Flashbangs. Those are three of the 10 broad types of military equipment currently possessed by the Palm Springs Police Department, and residents will have the ...

The Washington Post showed in 1999 how used D.C. police guns had been used in at least eight killings after 9,000 guns were sold in the previous decade. One had been used in a homicide in St. Louis.

Today, the list of equipment held by local police agencies shows how they have benefited from military largesse. In Washington state, police in Aberdeen (population 16,654) got a mine-resistant ...

For instance, the police department of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, which is 10 miles south of St. Paul, got $1.1 million worth of equipment in the first three months of this year alone.

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. President Obama is beginning to curb police access to military-style ...

The Trump administration will reinstate a controversial Department of Defense program that distributes surplus military weapons and equipment to local police departments across the U.S., reversing ...

Transfers of military gear to police departments — from $767,000 armored cars designed to survive mines to night vision equipment to the backpacks soldiers take into combat — ballooned … ...

Police departments haven't given up on buying the military equipment they love. Anjali Nair / MSNBC; NYT: Getty Nov. 13, 2020, 5:01 AM EST / Updated Nov. 16, 2020, 4:40 PM EST ...

The aggressive, chemical-heavy response by Columbus police to large anti-police protests and riots starting in the spring was eye-opening for the Rev. Deborah Stevens, a Methodist minister. “I ...