Published on June 22, 2017
The 1033 Program, as it’s known, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996 with the goal of providing local law enforcement agencies with surplus military equipment. It has since come under fire amidst allegations of fraud and abuse — and the general over-the-top nature of local police agencies doing things like using a damn tank to serve a warrant on a cock fighter. In 2015, President Barack Obama pledged to review the 1033 Program after military equipment was used by local police agencies to respond to riots after the officer-involved deaths of two unarmed black men — Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
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