New Study Proves Arming Police With Military Weapons does NOTHING TO Reduce Crime

Via America’s Lawyer: Studies show that militarizing local police forces with weapons of war does nothing to reduce crime rates. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Become a member today!:    / @theringoffire   Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!:   / theringoffire   Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel:    / theringoffire   Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffireradio   Google+: http://plus.google.com/11841583157319... Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A new peer reviewed study has proven that giving police officers weapons of war absolutely does nothing to reduce crime rates. I have Farron Cousins here, the editor of the trial lawyer magazine to talk about it. You know, Farron, we've, we've done this story so many times, it's almost, you're talking about airplanes, grenades, rocket launchers, tanks, drones. What, what happens is this is surplus, right? The military weapons industry wants to sell more weapons. So they go to the military and they said, ah, you need new tanks. You need new grenades. You need new airplanes. Let's get rid of the old and bring in the new. And so this is just a, it's another way the weapons industry makes money. It's doing nothing as far as stopping crime in the United States, according to these studies. What's your take? Right. And, you know, that's a really good point to start off with there. is this 1033 program is what it's called and that, that's exactly what it is. You have the defense industry that wants to keep selling more weapons each year. They know the Pentagon's plan with over $700 billion every year. So where does it go? Well, you have to buy the new, the new drone we have out because the, the software's a little bit faster than your old version. Okay. Well, what do we do with the old version? Let's give it to police officers because sure they, they need a drone, for some reason. I'm not talking about the little ones you can go buy at Best Buy. I'm talking about a literal military grade drone that you see flying from the US over in the Middle East. I mean, that's what we're dealing with here. It can carry a missile, if you have to. Exactly. Okay. So here it's, it's a recruitment tool. That's the other part of it. Kid wants to be a policeman. Look I'm, you're going to look like GI Joe, before you get done. No, you're not going to have to serve in Iraq, but you're going to be right here in the police department and you're going to be dressed up like a, you know, like a ninja, a ninja soldier. And it's kinda, you know, it makes sense. It's a draw for, for kids coming out of school and maybe out of junior college that want to do this. I can't, you can't blame them for it. But it's not really accomplishing anything. And the next question I had, well, is it about police safety if they have all these toys, what does it say about police safety? Well, unfortunately these new studies show that this program has done absolutely nothing to keep officers safe. You still are seeing the same number of police officers killed every single year, including those who are driving around in the tanks, using all this fancy military grade riot gear. It, it's not keeping them safe. And in fact, it's not keeping communities safe either. If anything, these reports show it's making communities feel more under attack. Okay. Let me. They view this as a threat. Let me give you other side of it. Okay. Here's the other side. There's always many sides to everything. You have the cartel, the drug cartel on border States in the United States. They're starting to see new increases of crime with a, basically cartel coming right over the, right over the border. And they're saying down on the border, we need this because the Mexican cartel is armed better than we are. And that is true. That is the truth. So that's their best argument right now. But I'm hearing it more and more that that's why we need all of this stuff. We need drones. We need tanks. We, we need this stuff because the other side has it. And the other side now is Mexican cartel moving into the United States. What do you think? #rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews