• @SwedishFool
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    141 year ago

    Wasn’t these basically donated because the military had too many? I understand them completely. The SWAT units needs armored trucks, even in Sweden they have Sandcats. The options were these extremely cheap former military MRAPs that are bulletproof, or buy armored civilian vehicles which costs multiple hundreds of thousands.

    I’d bark up the tree of military spending rather than the police accepting hand-me-downs.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      If I remember correctly pretty much every small town in the US has a ridiculous SWAT team like this. I think this kind of equipment is rare in Sweden.