OT The Ohio State Armored Division
In a Washington Post article by Radley Balko regarding police use of military vehicles, he disclosed that Ohio State obtained an armored vehicle for football games:
"And the Ohio State University Police Department asked for an armored vehicle to assist with "football missions". (The Pentagon gave Ohio State an MRAP in September 2013, and school police deployed it to football games, the department told a student newspaper, so as to have a presence)."
August 12th, 2015 at 9:33 AM ^
OK.....?
August 12th, 2015 at 5:51 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
May not be a bad idea since we know what type of unsavory characters urbz has been hanging out with....
August 12th, 2015 at 9:36 AM ^
What else is the University security suppose to do when their admissions office makes crime a prerequisite to enrollment?
August 12th, 2015 at 9:38 AM ^
FWIW our military has MRAPs coming out of their ears. We're leaving/destroying hundreds in IRQ and AFG.
Our local police dept. has one, as well. It was in the newspaper about a year ago because the PD can't afford to fuel it/maintain it, so it just sits in a garage. Personally, the militarization of our local PD's worries me.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
It worries me quite a bit as well. Makes sense they give them away though because then departments can buy new ones, and budgets don't have to shrink.
I don't like that everywhere you turn in this country you're reminded of war. It's not like that in other places.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
Cops are a bunch of scrubs who couldn't hack it in the military and now want to play soldier on America's streets.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
In no way does any football program (or sports program, or police department, or anyone but the military) need an MRAP for any reason, especially crowd control or "having a presence". Seriously, these things can handle land mines and IEDs, and were used during the war in Iraq. This is just silly.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
And the douchebags at Ohio State still keyed it.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
August 12th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^
all of the protests going on after shooting unarmed people the local PDs need to upgrade their guns, vehicles and probably get some Apaches too.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
If they're just gonna shoot unarmed people, why do they need better weapons?
August 12th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
sorry the sarcasm was implied
August 12th, 2015 at 9:41 AM ^
Recruiting tool?
/s
August 12th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:26 PM ^
We have snipers on top of the Big House!
August 12th, 2015 at 4:36 PM ^
Good. I have a list.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
Tin foil hat me all you want, but this kind of thing is worrying. The American political system is broken but the elite of both sides know they're golden as long as the American people can be distracted with social media and mindless TV programming. We won't be bothered to force change until the day a real economic calamity arrives and suddenly the grocery store is empty, the gas stations closed and the ATMs aren't dispensing money. I honestly fear this police militarization is their insurance policy for when that day comes.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
You're probably closer to the truth than most people would like to admit.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
look at the massive (truly massive) procurement of weaponry by Dept of Homeland Security over the past 3ish years.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
August 12th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
Must be the evil twin of MIT professor Noam Chomsky.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
only fatter
August 12th, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
No tinfoil needed. Just looking at history in general says that those sort of things are what happen next unless a society's people course correct. It's particularly difficult to course correct now though because objections have been recast as the person saying them being crazy. You said a perfectly reasonable thing and you yourself had to provide cover with your tin foil comment. I've found myself doing the same thing. (This sentence here feels like a place I would normally do that). I don't know what the solution is, but I think part of it has to involve more people sharing ideas.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
Let's not forget the continued infringement on the 2nd Amendment. They will keep trying to take citizens' one tool for defense to leave us completely powerless.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:53 AM ^
Militarize the police
Make prisons for profit.
Make sure people stay poor.
The powers that be are doing a great job...
August 12th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:54 AM ^
"In my China, you are allowed to cross the provincial borders."
August 12th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
But as someone pointed out the military has a ton of these vehicles and other surplus items. Since 1997 a lot of this material was provided to local law enforcement through the 1033 program. If you were a police department, you basically could fill out some forms and come pick up whatever you wanted.
The Obama Administration put some limtis on this program back in May. This Washington Post article does a nice job explaining it.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
There's only one Tank that belongs on a college campus
August 12th, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
In Chesterfield County, South Carolina—population 46,000—the sheriff requested a vehicle that could withstand both roadside bombs and a type of machine gun round that can shatter concrete.
After all, you never know what those folks across the border in Anson County, North Carolina will do if provoked. Obviously, they just want to be prepared for everything that could possibly happen in a county of 46,000.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:08 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
Savages!
August 12th, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:26 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
When the bomb sniffing dogs find something in our opponents gear. /s