Montana Moves to Rein in Militarized Police
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🗓️ 30 April 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, April 30, 2015. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:08.0 | Montana has greatly restricted its police department's ability to get access to weaponry designed for the military. |
| 0:15.0 | It may be another signal that states are increasingly willing to take greater control of the police power. |
| 0:21.0 | Adam Bates, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, discusses the details. |
| 0:26.8 | There's actually a laundry list of federal programs that exist to either distribute or facilitate the distribution of military |
| 0:38.6 | grade weaponry or funds that can be used to purchase military-grade weaponry and vehicles from the federal |
| 0:46.0 | government, from the military to local law enforcement. Probably the most |
| 0:50.6 | famous one is the Pentagon's 1033 program which allows surplus military |
| 0:59.0 | equipment from the Pentagon to be transferred free of charge to local law enforcement. |
| 1:04.4 | Now that can include mundane things like office chairs and refrigerators or it can include |
| 1:11.6 | high-capacity, high-power rifles, mine-resistant vehicles, and things like that. |
| 1:17.7 | There are also a great many lesser-known programs, the Pentagon's 1122 program, high intensity drug trafficking grants, homeland security grants. |
| 1:27.0 | There are all and all about 8 to 10 of these federal programs that basically serve the same function. |
| 1:35.0 | And the federal government really hasn't done much even after the show of force in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere in the United States really hasn't done much to rein this in. |
| 1:46.5 | Right, I feel like the events in Ferguson and the massive police show of force after the demonstrations in Ferguson |
| 1:55.0 | were really the first time a lot of people even heard of these programs |
| 1:58.6 | or knew they existed. Some of these programs have existed for years and years for 25 years in the case of the 1033 |
| 2:05.2 | program. |
| 2:06.7 | So there was a bit of an awakening as far as the existence of these programs, but you're right. From the federal level, the White House |
| 2:14.7 | commissioned a review of these programs, but as far as actual substantive efforts to rein these |
| 2:21.6 | things in, no, there has been virtually no action at the federal |
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