https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/watc...l-service.html
https://youtu.be/Clwv7l73to0?t=1h11m00s
"That is why, as I promised all along, that we are allowing local police to access the surplus military equipment they need, to protect our officers and law enforcement agents and save their lives and they are taking equipment at a record clip. Millions and millions of dollars of surplus equipment is going to our police departments. If we want to bring down violent crime then we must stand up for our police. We must stand up to confront and condemn dangerous anti police prejudice. Can you believe there is prejudice against our police? We aren't going to let bad things happen to our police."
Compare Trump's statements on violent crime and policing to the facts. Violent crime is at historic lows.
Police killings are at historic highs.
The data is clear. Violent crime is dropping and has been for decades anyway so there is no need for police militarization to fight it. Also there is no justification for the high rate of police killings based on the steadily dropping violent crime rate.
Even conservatives like Mike Huckabee point to police militarization as a large part of the problem.
Rand Paul has spoken out against police militarization.
Ron Paul has spoken out against police militarization as well.
Even Alex Jones once spoke out against police militarization.
I hold no hope for Alex doing the right thing this time though.
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