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This is how they celebrate? They point at a thing?
A lot of police departments are just… gifted this shit by the military industrial complex.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
They don’t have a need for it, but it looks cool parked at the county fair.
The problem is, once they have it, they reach for reasons to use it.
DOD doesn’t want to pay upkeep and it was designed for roadside bombs in remote mountains not Iranian drones.
Might as well give it to the cops, in case one of their supporters accidentally hits it while trying to bomb a women’s shelter or something.
They’re specifically not to be used on roads because they don’t fit, rollover if sneezed at and destroy our roads but fuck it they’re police right?
I’m confused about the design. If it’s designed for mountain areas but is top heavy and rolls easy, isn’t that a major design floor for an area where the terrain is likely to be steep from left to right in parts?
Maybe my idea of terrain in mountainous areas is wrong.
It’s designed to stay on roads.
Those roads are natural choke points where bombs are often hidden on the ground, which results in a high and heavy design.MATV begs to differ. We always had the technology. We just wanted a cheap solution to stop taking so many casualties.
Correct, they move slow but they are quite explosion survivable past the original design.
You have correctly identified one of many reasons the military hated these.
Tall but narrower than other options while having survivability in case of getting IED’d. I know HMMWVs are actually big but the MRAPs didn’t all have a much larger footprint.
Fun fact though, they had to add a gunners harness because the gunners were more likely to die in a roll over. Armored plates all up over your back but you get crushed because the Specialist driving hasn’t even driven anything bigger than his Civic and doesn’t have enough hours dealing with actual Afghan roads.
What are you talking about, that would fit perfectly parked in the bike lane
I dunno, it might have to “monster truck” its way over all the other motor vehicles already parked in the bike lane.
When all you have is a hammer, etc.
Is it “gifted” to them, or are they paying taxpayer dollars to purchase these war machines? When they’re turning our local communities into war zones, some of us might even question whether we should reduce their funding significantly if this is what they’re squandering our money on.
Watch them cower inside of this vehicle, idling in the parking lot as a school shooter empties one magazine after another.
They pay little to nothing to get them, then they pay everything to keep, maintain, and store it. As someone else noted, looks like it’s already leaking oil.
They pay very little for it. Essentially shipping.
Hmm, can’t decide if that’s better or worse.
What is an IUD? Did they misspell IED?
play on words
noun
A pun, or similar humorous use of language such as a double entendre.:)
btw that response sounded a little rude, meant in jest though!
No, they said what they said. IUD, Illegal Unwanted Darkskins
/s because that’s way too fucking plausible, fuck me I think I need to wash my soul
I think they meant IUD as in intrauterine device, because this is Texas and women are supposed to give birth, not avoid pregnancy
It’s the Evil Unimog
Why is it doing a Carolina squat?
Looks like it already has an oil leak
You know that thing has gotta be a hangar queen that measures efficiency in gallons per mile. I guess the towncs educators are gonna have to tighten their belts some more.
It’s just so damn full of fossil fuel, it’s bursting at the seams.
It’s military. If it wasn’t leaking oil, it wouldn’t work.
it was clearly marked no parking
hypocrites
Oh, you know. In case these criminal groups ever cross the border and try to endanger the citizens of Texas:
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Also one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read coincidentally. But funny!
The article is dumb? You should visit Mexico. Tell the federales that you hate the police.
Storing it 10 hours north of the border (assuming it can reach highway speeds and only needs to stop for gas twice) might not be the strategic move you think it is
Any closer and the cartels might steal it, though.
So either keep it safe and too far away to be useful or keep it where its useful but will get stolen? Might as well not have one then
They would probably fly in some military defense first. The local law enforcement and other state law enforcement would mostly likely just provide reinforcement to their effort. Here’s hoping Claudia can keep the cartels in check, right?
Yeah so this vehicle is completely useless to the police, agreed.
So you’re saying the cartels are already in Texas but this exists in case they ever cross the border into Texas?
Americans genuinely don’t understand the difference between police and the military rofl
Yeah, I’m sure you attended police academy, or served in the military, right? If you had, one of the first things they would tell you is to not have social media.
served in the military, right?
I did, yeah. About 75% of males around here do, nothing special about it. Also, while we do it we genuinely get better training in the use of force than most American police.
And yes, they do talk about the responsibility of what you share. When I was in the army, not so much, as social media wasn’t really a thing yet and phone cameras weren’t much of thing. My brother, though, went a few years after, they covered it in much more detail.
Edit technically I’m still in the army, as I’m in the reserves.
Lucky you. They deemed you physically unscathed enough to serve.
Like they do more than 90% of males here. ~7% go to civil service.
“Lucky you”. You Americans and your military fetishes. Exactly what’s the problem here, preventing you from discerning your police from your military or even really knowing the difference.
Oh, so you aren’t even American? You don’t live in America. So what is your problem with police in Texas? This post specifically addresses police in Texas and the new vehicles they received.
“You’re not even American, and think you have the right to laugh at the American military-industrial complex?!”
What’s wrong with an overmilitarised and undereducated police force…?
What’s wrong with people genuinely not being able to name the difference in roles between the military and the police?
We can figure this out together, I’m sure.
“Yippy Dippy Doooo!!! We can hide in here as the kids get killed in Uvalde!!!” - Texas Cops
Citizens: votes them all back in. Excellent work!
I think I get where you’re going with this, but law enforcement isn’t hired by the public, except maybe the Sheriff, depending on where you are…
All the electable positions that were involved were re-elected.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with an MRAP, is a good guy with an MRAP.
Now if only we could find some bad guys with an MRAP…
There a 2 right in this picture
I feel like these should be used as a sort of honey pot. If your police department buys one of these, fire everyone and start over from scratch.
I think these are handed down for cheap/free by the military. Not that a police department needs these types of vehicles.
Precisely this. If the military donates it, they can get budget to get a new one.
DoD hardware for police usually comes with contracts that state they have to be maintained in working order, because the DoD can just take them back if there’s a military need.
Effectively, it’s the PD paying to warehouse and maintain DoD equipment for them, as long as the DoD doesn’t mind the stuff getting used once in a while.
Honestly this seems kinda sensible.
It’s a cover. The military is never asking for this equipment back unless they’re conscripting the cops to the front line in the Rockies because of the surprise North Korean invasion.
The military will never want these back. In fact most of the stuff they give police is extremely obsolete from a military perspective.
The Pedestrian & Protester Pulverizer 9000™️
To counter those vicious abortists
I mean, in any revolution within the US, it would be cops trying to play soldier vs the citizens in the initial moves.
Folks like to think the army, or the marines are what we would be fighting. Maybe eventually, after things get far enough along, but the first steps in seizing control is removing the police because they’re the ones that will be guarding property and responding to attacks against politicians and/or oligarchs.
Of course the cops want to play soldier. There’s enough of them in place because they’re infiltrators from extremist groups. Often the most rabid racist groups. It’s no secret at all that their plan is to be in place to seize control themselves.
I don’t buy into the literal acab bullshit, only the systemic version. But that system is bad, and part of what’s making it worse is this kind of thing. Those assholes right there? Those are the guys you’ll want to be watching if shit gets real.
Which is funny because part of the reason to have civilian police is that they don’t report to the military and ideally would side with the civilians against a tyrannical government.
Funnily enough, cops would probably not know a tyrannical government until it knocked
ondown their door.
…parking policy enforcement.
