The Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck my little city will be getting from Homeland Security – presumably to fight domestic violence and riots rather than international terrorism – is described as a personnel carrier that can transport at least 10 police officers (who knows about regular folks) and comes equipped with gun ports on each side and a rotating center hatch.
Get that, Darth Vader? I assume it has blinking lights all over as well. And maybe steam or fog pouring from under.
Yes, the Department of Homeland Security has been playing Santa Claus with its Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program.
This decision does nothing, of course, to make me feel any more secure. Quite the opposite, actually. I hate to think what might happen if this vehicle gets out on the streets. Or bullets start flying. Or worse, it falls into the wrong hands.
It’s enough to suggest that too many bureaucrats in some high places have been watching too many weird action movies. Or are they really just 14-year-old male adolescents?
Jnana's Red Barn 
“It’s enough to suggest that too many bureaucrats in some high places have been watching too many weird action movies. Or are they really just 14-year-old male adolescents?”
Why can’t it be both?
LOL
Sally
I find it strange that police officers are not allowed to have automatic weapons but the can have a vehicle that allows a whole lot of freedom to “Protect and Serve.” One mistake and boom a small problem mushrooms beyond the truth of the matter. *I’m not anti-law enforcement but a supporter. My concern is for both sides of the table. I give up on the third which is the first. That would be those who gain the most $$ from the situation. Someone is or it wouldn’t be happening.