Sentences with phrase «surplus equipment program»

The revelations about the military equipment provided through the agency's 1033 surplus equipment program have stoked concerns by civil rights groups that law enforcement is overreaching into school matters and contributing to a punitive atmosphere.

Schumer helped port officials secure a new container reach stacker, along with a dump truck and two generators from the federal government's surplus equipment program.

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Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

«Erie County operates a unique surplus program that allows local schools and municipalities to benefit from unused equipment, furniture or supplies.

A U.S. Department of Defense program that has been criticized for «militarizing» local police departments by providing them with free surplus equipment has also provided school police around the country with armored vehicles, semiautomatic rifles, and grenade launchers.