Pentagon Gives L.A. School Cops Grenade Launchers

[green73]

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/sep/08/california-releases-1033-program-data/


California today became the twenty-seventh state to release detailed spreadsheets of equipment state and local police departments have received via the Pentagon's 1033 program.

MuckRock is still processing the data, but transfers to five school district police departments leapt out from the spreadsheet, which California Office of Emergency Services indicates is current as of late June:


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Baldwin Park School Police Department


3 assault rifles, all M16 5.56 mm



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Kern High School District Police


30 magazine pouches for M4 assault rifle ammunition



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Los Angeles School Police Department


61 assault rifles, all M16 5.56 mm
3 grenade launchers
1 mine resistant vehicle (MRAP)



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Oakland Unified School Police


1 utility truck, which the Defense Logistics Agency classified as tactical equipment



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San Diego Unified Schools Police


1 mine resistant vehicle (MRAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP))


One additional school district department — Stockton Unified School District Police — also received equipment from the 1033 program, but no vehicles, weapons or other tactical equipment.

[jbauer]

Sweet!!! Just what I always wanted a grenade launcher. Thank You Santa

[Root]

School police, weapons of war, what could possibly go wrong?

[tod evans]

School police, weapons of war, what could possibly go wrong?

Pre-prison has never been more apparent...

[Dr.3D]

What good is a grenade launcher if you don't have any grenades?

[tod evans]

This thread needs a link to this (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?459617-Retired-Tucson-Police-sergeant-writes-book-on-school-security-mass-shootings) one....

[Root]

Pre-prison has never been more apparent...
Yeah, no shit. Really scary. If I had a kid they'd never be in a school-prison. I guess all the space will come in handy for FEMA camp processing someday.

[kylejack]

What good is a grenade launcher if you don't have any grenades?
I would imagine the intended use is tear gas. Seems unlikely that a riot would develop so fast that LAPD or etc. wouldn't be able to respond, though.

[Dr.3D]

I would imagine the intended use is tear gas. Seems unlikely that a riot would develop so fast that LAPD or etc. wouldn't be able to respond, though.
Well, you know how it is when kids decide to cross the street without the crossing guard.

[oyarde]

What good is a grenade launcher if you don't have any grenades?

I imagine the intended use would be chemical weapons on the citizenry .Cops like stuff like that .

[juleswin]

What good is a grenade launcher if you don't have any grenades?

I could be wrong but I think they can also be used to launch teargas rounds.

[DamianTV]

Do your homework, or else, Grenade / Rocket Launcher / Tank! No spitwads for mundanes, punishable by execution with much much larger weapons. How are schools not prisons again, someone care to remind me? How do they not teach Fear of pissing off Authority as one of their primary lessons? Why cant kids read again? Why dont we just eliminate all Teachers and Principals and let the fucking COPS teach school?

[SeanTX]

I imagine the intended use would be chemical weapons on the citizenry .Cops like stuff like that .

They also make great "non-lethal" direct-fire weapons too -- "oopsie, didn't mean to hit you in the face with that."

[Root]

Do your homework, or else, Grenade / Rocket Launcher / Tank! No spitwads for mundanes, punishable by execution with much much larger weapons. How are schools not prisons again, someone care to remind me? How do they not teach Fear of pissing off Authority as one of their primary lessons? Why cant kids read again? Why dont we just eliminate all Teachers and Principals and let the fucking COPS teach school?
That's perfect. Summary execution for being late to class, not doing homework, passing a note to the pretty girl, etc...

[brushfire]

But allow a trained teacher to carry a concealed firearm on their person? No fking way! Imagine how dangerous that would be?

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[invisible]

So now they have to use this stuff, or give it back. They wanted it, so obviously they must have some sort of use for it.

[green73]

Update:

District Gives Up Grenade Launchers

Keeps M16 Rifles, Armored Vehicles

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/09/19/LA-School-District-Giving-Up-Grenade-Launchers-Keeping-M16-Rifles-Armored-Vehicle

[acptulsa]

Grenades are good. What's a little collateral damage? It's only a school. It's not like there are any voters in attendance.

[brushfire]

So its ok to arm the teachers with M16's, right? Why not? Maybe they could store the M16's with teenage mutant ninja costumes - then it should be acceptable for teachers to be armed.