Trump Order Resurfaces Debate about “Militarizing” Police
The White House lifted Obama’s ban on gear like tracked vehicles and grenade launchers, imposed after harsh police response to Ferguson protests
Pres. Donald Trump was swept into office largely due to campaign promises that he would dismantle a number of his predecessor’s signature programs.
Although his efforts to reverse Obama-era reforms to health care and immigration policy remain a very gradual work in progress,
Trump recently revoked a 2015 executive order limiting the availability of surplus military gear—
tracked vehicles,
grenade launchers,
bayonets
and certain other equipment—to state and local law enforcement agencies.
Trump’s August 28 executive order is “a big deal symbolically” because it reverses a big part of the approach to policing adopted during the Obama administration’s second term, says Michael White, a professor of criminology at Arizona State University.
The order “is another example of
this administration’s focus on getting tough on crime as opposed to the previous administration’s interest in community policing,”
White says.
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