The Militarization Of The Constabulary

Mapping the Militarization of Law Enforcement inwards the U.S. is a map showing how much police pull forces bring spent on 1033 Program armed forces equipment. Police forces throughout the U.S. bring used the programme to buy items such every bit mutual frigidness conditions clothing, sand bags, medical supplies, sleeping bags in addition to flashlights.

The programme has too been used yesteryear to a greater extent than or less police pull forces to equip themselves alongside grenade launchers, aircraft, watercraft in addition to armored vehicles. This map allows y'all to persuasion at county degree how much coin police pull forces bring spent on the 1033 Program, the damage of this to taxation payers (per household) in addition to to persuasion just what equipment has been purchased yesteryear local police pull forces.


Using the Pentagon's Excess Property Program (1033) police pull forces across the U.S. are equipping themselves alongside armed forces cast guns, grenade launchers, vehicles, black vision in addition to trunk armor.  The New York Times created this interactive map to disclose what surplus armed forces equipment county police pull forces bring obtained through the program.

Mapping the Spread of the Military's Surplus Gear uses information from the Pentagon to present where police pull forces bring obtained surplus armed forces gear. You tin conduct a county on the map to persuasion what equipment a local police pull forcefulness has obtained nether the Excess Property Program in addition to inwards what quantity. You tin too conduct a category of armed forces equipment to run across which counties across the U.S. bring been inwards receipt of that type of surplus armed forces gear.

The map itself was created alongside D3.js. If y'all are interested inwards creating a like map in addition to thence Suffen.us has an tardily to follow tutorial, Making a Simple Interactive Map Prototype alongside D3…For Total Beginners Who are Totally Impatient, explaining how to practise a U.S. counties map alongside D3.js, using a mutual separated values file to charge the data.