{"id":9200,"date":"2013-12-02T17:41:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2013-12-02T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:42:37","slug":"spoils-of-war-police-getting-leftover-iraq-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/spoils-of-war-police-getting-leftover-iraq-trucks","title":{"rendered":"Spoils of war: Police getting leftover Iraq trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">MICHAEL VIRTANEN <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"bylinetitle\">Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs during the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">The hulking vehicles, built for about $500,000 each at the height of the war, are among the biggest pieces of equipment that the Defense Department is giving to law enforcement agencies under a national military surplus program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">For police and sheriff\u2019s departments, which have scooped up 165 of the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPS, since they became available this summer, the price and the ability to deliver shock and awe while serving warrants or dealing with hostage standoffs was just too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">\u201cIt\u2019s armored. It\u2019s heavy. It\u2019s intimidating. And it\u2019s free,\u201d said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, among five county sheriff\u2019s departments and three other police agencies in New York that have taken delivery of an MRAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_SURPLUS_ARMORED_TRUCKS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-11-24-11-42-57\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MICHAEL VIRTANEN Associated Press QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs during the Iraq war. The hulking vehicles, built for about $500,000 each at the height of the war, are among [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1493,31,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-policy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}