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Jeremy Bender reports that eight different law enforcement agencies in Indiana have purchased massive Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) that were formerly used in Iraq and Afghanistan. The MRAP is a bulletproof, 60,000-pound, six-wheeled behemoth with heavy armor, a gunner's turret and the word "SHERIFF" emblazoned on its flank.
Pulaski County, home to 13,124 people, is one of the counties that have purchased an MRAP from military surplus. When asked to justify the purchase of a former military vehicle, Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer told the Indy Star:
"The United States of America has become a war zone. There's violence in the workplace, there's violence in schools and there's violence in the streets. You are seeing police departments going to a semi-military format because of the threats we have to counteract. If driving a military vehicle is going to protect officers, then that's what I'm going to do."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by velex on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:03PM
Here's a suggestion. I haven't read the thread and of course didn't break tradition by RTAing. Maybe, just maybe, we should improve our handling of mental illness.
Here's a hint: 3 sessions of talk therapy isn't going to fix shit.
Change our perspective about psychedelics. I hear one LSD trip can do a world more in treating alcoholism than years of AA and talk therapy. Wouldn't it be nice if you were having a bad day and there were something you could smoke that would just brighten things up?
Who knows. I don't know. This species is failed. Improve care for mental illness and you'll see less people snapping.
It's a problem. Don't get angry, just fucking fix it. And you're done.