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Obama to Limit Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces
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Obama to Limit Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
MAY 18, 2015
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/
obama-to-limit-military-style-equipment-for-police-forces.html
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WASHINGTON President Obama on Monday will ban the federal provision of
some types of military-style equipment to local police departments and
sharply restrict the availability of others, administration officials
said.
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The ban is part of Mr. Obamas push to ease tensions between law
enforcement and minority communities in reaction to the crises in
Baltimore; Ferguson, Mo.; and other cities.
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He is taking the action after a task force he created in January decided
that police departments should be barred from using federal funds to
acquire items that include tracked armored vehicles, the highest-caliber
firearms and ammunition, and camouflage uniforms. The ban is part of a
series of steps the president has made to try to build trust between law
enforcement organizations and the citizens they are charged with
protecting.
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Mr. Obama planned to promote the effort on Monday during a visit to
Camden, N.J. The city, racked by poverty and crime, has become a national
model for better relations between the police and citizens after replacing
its beleaguered police force with a county-run system that prioritizes
community ties.
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Mr. Obama is expected to hold up Camden as a counterpoint to places like
Ferguson, where the killing of a young black man by a white police officer
last summer and the violent protests that followed exposed long-simmering
hostility between law enforcement agencies and minorities in cities around
the country.
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The trip and the action on military-style equipment are to coincide with
the release on Monday of a report from a policing task force that Mr.
Obama formed late last year in response to the crisis in Ferguson. The
116-page report calls for law enforcement agencies to embrace a guardian
rather than a warrior mind-set to build trust and legitimacy both within
agencies and with the public. It contains dozens of recommendations for
agencies throughout the country.
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We are, without a doubt, sitting at a defining moment in American
policing, Ronald L. Davis, the director of the Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services at the Department of Justice, told reporters in
a conference call organized by the White House. We have a unique
opportunity to redefine policing in our democracy, to ensure that public
safety becomes more than the absence of crime, but it must also include a
presence for justice.
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