Protests and violence in Ferguson, Missouri might look similar to the 1999 W.T.O. riots and recent May Day demonstrations in Seattle. The Ferguson Police response renews the question of why police ...

HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn - Tension is still high in Ferguson, Missouri after an officer shot and killed an unarmed man Friday night, but the lasting image of police, dressed and armed like military ...

In this episode of Murphys Diesel, I undertake the challenge of transporting a massive, broken 10X10 HEMTT military truck ...

The federal government has doled out more than $18 billion in surplus military equipment to local police departments over the last five years with little or no oversight. That’s the conclusion of a ...

At 10:38 a.m. on Oct. 1, the first 911 call came into the Douglas County, Oregon, emergency communications center: Shots had been fired at Umpqua Community College. Within minutes, officers from the ...

There has been an ongoing debate about how local law enforcement departments are becoming more militarised. A controversial federal program allows surplus equipment to get recycled or rather passed ...

UC San Diego requested two new drones “to assist with patrol operations and special event safety,” according to the report, ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is preparing to lift restrictions on surplus military equipment that can be passed on to local law enforcement agencies in spite of past concerns that armored ...

University of California police departments are replenishing their inventories of military-grade equipment, including drones, ammunition and pepper ball rounds. UC’s Board of Regents on Wednesday ...

Located just a few miles outside Jefferson City, along scenic Route 179, stands a state warehouse. On Friday, tractors, boats ...

The same Pentagon program that provides surplus military equipment to local police departments has also provided heavy armor and weapons to school districts, and a group of civil rights groups are ...