After dipping in the back three quarters of 2020 amid a nationwide focus on policing, the transfer of military weapons and equipment to civilian police has picked back up in the first quarter of 2021.
An analysis of data from the Defense Logistics Agency by Stephen Semler, co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute, found that the value of military equipment transferred under the 1033 Program reached levels in Q1 of this year not seen since before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd.
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