TheOmni: . There's a serious problem with the militarization of our police force.

THIS

Doesn't a tank require a gun to be classified as a tank? Also this kind of stuff is a direct result of the Hollywood bank robbery/shootout in the 90's where the police were hopelessly outgunned and couldn't go in to get people lying in the street with gunshot wounds.

They have the AUDACITY to put RESCUE on that F@$KING thing! That an't rescuing s%@t! The only reason you drag something like that out is to hurt somebody!

"a massive 'armored personnel carrier.' Or, in laymen's terms, a tank."

Or in accurate terms frequently used by laymen who aren't retarded, an armored personnel carrier.

NewportBarGuy: M557 armored command center. Yeah, a police force really needs that sh*t.

They might, depending on how they plan to define "policing."

SilentStrider: Godscrack: I think it's time we stop, children
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin' down.

paranoia runs deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when you're always afraid
step out of line, the man comes to take you away

My M82A1's boss,
Sling fire it on the run, if you're a hoss
With a big mag full of AP
you can make Swiss cheese of that APC

NewportBarGuy: M557 armored command center. Yeah, a police force really needs that sh*t.

It's bullshiate, because they get subsidies and discounts and collectors have to pay the open market prices for such things. It's like giving the police M-14s for FREE and sending all the ones that should be CMP to the gaping maws of metal shredders.

Any agency getting subsidized, when anybody should be able to bid in the same market, that's the travesty here.

I have to admit, I'm hopelessly confused here...

Why in the tapdancing fark would any local police force need a tank, ever?

The party doesn't start until the cops break out the Mechs!

PEPPER SPRAY, 1500L
EXTENDED RANGE CLUSTER TASER, 1MIN COOLDOWN
RIOT SHIELD, IMPROVED
DEPLETED URANIUM BATON, LENGTH 10M
UNPANTSING DEVICE, 30 SEC COOLDOWN

Still working on my loadout...

Radioactive Ass: Doesn't a tank require a gun to be classified as a tank?

"I have to admit I'm really surprised that so many of the protestors are making such silly conjectures, implying that the tank might be used violently against the protestors..." (new window)

And I have to admit, Tienanmen Square's tanks (an allusion a lot of our more 'right-thinking' Farkers have seemed fond of making in recent weeks) really needed turret mounted guns to harm protestors. How'd you like THAT, huh? You wanna be 'rescued' again?!

Meh. Florida.

Virtually unstoppable? I have a 5-point plan to stop one.

Step 1. Dig hole
Step 2. Cover hole up
Step 3. Call police
Step 4. Drink beer
Step 5. Wipe hands on pants

Now I Is!: They have the AUDACITY to put RESCUE on that F@$KING thing! That an't rescuing s%@t! The only reason you drag something like that out is to hurt somebody!

Notice how the thing doesn't have any guns? I highly doubt that thing is used in a directly offensive capacity, if only because I think it lacks the capability.

Now, the real reason it has "Rescue" painted on it in reality probably has two possible explanations: Either they use it as a hostage rescue vehicle in the almost-never-happening occasion of dealing with heavily armed individuals, or based on the fact that they put a lightbar on a frickin' APC, they only use it for photo-ops like the OP said.

aww beat me to it phatboy249

wonder how long before they start comparing one of our citys pd's to some nation's military force at this rate.

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came to post exactly that...

Cyno01: For farks sake, what does even a major metro police department need a vehicle like that for? Maybe MAYBE some southwestern border towns could use something like that, but even then it should be the national guard with it...

Military protect and serves the country.

Police PROTECT AND SERVES the citizens.

State governments, you wanna balance your budget and cut wasteful spending? Stop giving every barney fife and stacey koon automatic weapons.

They are getting surplussed kit. It's not like they have to pay much for it. It's actually heavily subsidized on the FEDERAL side of things. NOW, knowing this, you might rethink your "State Government" angle...

Neither impressed nor intimidated.

Not a problem...

Oznog: [www.co-optimus.com image 600x321]

The party doesn't start until the cops break out the Mechs!

PEPPER SPRAY, 1500L
EXTENDED RANGE CLUSTER TASER, 1MIN COOLDOWN
RIOT SHIELD, IMPROVED
DEPLETED URANIUM BATON, LENGTH 10M
UNPANTSING DEVICE, 30 SEC COOLDOWN

Still working on my loadout...

You could discipline a whole lot of unlawfully-assembled dirty hippies with that loadout. Don't forget the PA system so you can order them to disperse while you're spraying them with justice and order.

untaken_name: Virtually unstoppable? I have a 5-point plan to stop one.

Step 1. Dig hole
Step 2. Cover hole up
Step 3. Call police
Step 4. Drink beer
Step 5. Wipe hands on pants

I'd ask for a subscription to your newsletter, but I don't want to be sharing your cell.

Cyno01: For farks sake, what does even a major metro police department need a vehicle like that for? Maybe MAYBE some southwestern border towns could use something like that, but even then it should be the national guard with it...

Military protect and serves the country.

Police PROTECT AND SERVES the citizens.

State governments, you wanna balance your budget and cut wasteful spending? Stop giving every barney fife and stacey koon automatic weapons.

Nope. Police protect and serve the law. Military protect and serve the constitution. Hope this helps!

Ed Grubermann: [2.bp.blogspot.com image 230x400]
Neither impressed nor intimidated.

Like the guns on these ones better.

My friends, it has often been said that I like war. Friends, I like war. No, friends, I love war!

I love holocausts. I love blitzkriegs. I love defensive lines. I love sieges, charges, I love mop-up operations, and retreats.

Wars across prairies, in streets, in trenches, in grasslands, in frozen tundras, through deserts, on the sea, in the air, I love every act of war that can occur upon this earth.

I love blasting the enemy to smithereens with artillery salvos that thunder across the lines of battle.

My heart leaps with joy whenever a soldier is tossed high into the air and cut to pieces by well placed sniper rounds.

And there is nothing like a tank operator using a Tiger 88 to destroy enemy tanks. And the feeling that comes when a soldier runs screaming from his blazing tank only to be mowed down by heavy machine gun fire, is such an exquisite feeling.

Like when ranks of infantry brandish their bayonets rushing into the enemy line. It moves me deep within my heart to watch a fresh recruit stabbing over and over into the bloated chest of a long-dead enemy.

The sight of deserters being strung up from a street lamp is an irresistible pleasure. And there is nothing more arousing, than the sounds made by prisoners of war dropping like flies, screaming in agony as they're mowed down by ear piercing schmeissers!

When a band of pitiful resistance fighters makes their final stands with nothing but small arms, only to have their city smashed to atoms block by block by 4.8 ton bombshells, I'm in ecstasy.

I love it when my forces are ravaged by a Russian armored division. It's so sad to see towns and villages that were supposed to be defended at all costs, being laid to waste, their women and children being raped, and killed.

I love to be squashed under the heel of the British and American war machines. The humiliation, as my men crawl around like vermin, ducking the Jabo flying overhead.

Gentlemen... All I ask for is war, a war so grand as to make Hell itself tremble. Gentlemen, I ask you as fellow brothers in arms, what is it you really want? Do you wish for further war as I do? Do you wish for a merciless, bloody war? A war whose fury is built with iron, and lightning, and fire? Do you ask for war to sweep in like a tempest, leaving not even ravens to scavenge, from this Earth!?

Therion: TheOmni: There's a serious problem with the militarization of our police force.

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The Austin police department deployed this baby in Sept 2010 when a college kid ran into the university library and shot himself.

The Austin police department is a pathetic overfunded piece of shiat.

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

Came for Theo.

/The police have themselves an RV!

Oh wow. I thought the headline was hyperbole. I guess I need to quit being taken aback by the outrageous over-response to occupy protestors.

/wonder if this will crack the headlines?

James F. Campbell: I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

Ssssh

untaken_name: Virtually unstoppable? I have a 5-point plan to stop one.

Step 1. Dig hole
Step 2. Cover hole up
Step 3. Call police
Step 4. Drink beer
Step 5. Wipe hands on pants

I like how you think.

strathmeyer: Cyno01: For farks sake, what does even a major metro police department need a vehicle like that for? Maybe MAYBE some southwestern border towns could use something like that, but even then it should be the national guard with it...

Military protect and serves the country.

Police PROTECT AND SERVES the citizens.

State governments, you wanna balance your budget and cut wasteful spending? Stop giving every barney fife and stacey koon automatic weapons.

Nope. Police protect and serve the law. Military protect and serve the constitution. Hope this helps!

law>people

THIS IS WHAT COPS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

SilentStrider: Godscrack: I think it's time we stop, children
what's that sound
everybody look what's goin' down.

paranoia runs deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when you're always afraid
step out of line, the man comes to take you away

TYVM

4 dead inOhio
4 dead in Ohio

The quarterback is TOAST!!!

This (new window) is the proper situation for this vehicle.

Dirty, whining hippies do not necessitate an APC.