WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today made the following statement on President Obama’s announcement regarding the limiting of military surplus equipment transfers to local police departments. Pallone called for the effectiveness and negative impacts of this program to be looked into when it first became clear how widespread it had become.
“President Obama’s move to limit the transfer of surplus military equipment to local police departments is an encouraging and much-needed reform. When weapons are used by local police that were designed for our military to fight terrorists, it will antagonize more than it will build trust, which is what we need a lot more of right now. We are clearly at a crossroads where building trust and easing tensions between law enforcement and minority communities can help positively define American policing going forward, and I applaud the President for taking us in that direction.”
2 comments:
I wish we could get Frank to stop grabbing the guns of citizens. Hey Frank if you are reading this stop trying to take away our 2nd amendment rights. Dont try to ban guns or ammunition from citizens. If you want to do something to stop violence take away HIPAA rights. The right to be insane and to hide it from others is not in the constitution. Although I understand why you would not want to upset the insane, they are your major supporters.
Those that are insane are the republicans in this country(especially ones like anon 11:54a.m.) and those who promote all this gun ownership BS.
What they really need is some brains not guns !!
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