The police need this for...?

A lot of police departments are just... gifted this shit by the military industrial complex.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police

They don't have a need for it, but it looks cool parked at the county fair.

The problem is, once they have it, they reach for reasons to use it.

DOD doesn't want to pay upkeep and it was designed for roadside bombs in remote mountains not Iranian drones.

Might as well give it to the cops, in case one of their supporters accidentally hits it while trying to bomb a women's shelter or something.
- They're specifically not to be used on roads because they don't fit, rollover if sneezed at and destroy our roads but fuck it they're police right?
Is it “gifted” to them, or are they paying taxpayer dollars to purchase these war machines? When they’re turning our local communities into war zones, some of us might even question whether we should reduce their funding significantly if this is what they’re squandering our money on.

Watch them cower inside of this vehicle, idling in the parking lot as a school shooter empties one magazine after another.
- They pay little to nothing to get them, then they pay everything to keep, maintain, and store it. As someone else noted, looks like it's already leaking oil.
- They pay very little for it. Essentially shipping.
When all you have is a hammer, etc.

I feel like these should be used as a sort of honey pot. If your police department buys one of these, fire everyone and start over from scratch.

I think these are handed down for cheap/free by the military. Not that a police department needs these types of vehicles.
- Precisely this. If the military donates it, they can get budget to get a new one.

IUD jokes aside, I think the way the cops are grinning is enough to say they don’t need it and they view it as a toy.

I mean, I'd be pretty excited to get to drive one.

Let's say you're a cop and you get a call: there's a hispanic gay crossdresser armed with a .50BMG sniper rifle with explosive rounds reported on the roof of the KwikeeMart, and they're threatening to shoot the Walmart across the street unless they're called by their proper pronouns, black lives/matter. This situation calls for an immediate response with at least a MRAP, and that's only because they don't have the funding for an airstrike from an A-10.

Yeah I mean they would need an MRAP to keep them safe while they wait for the shooter to finish up or run out of ammo. We've got to think of the officers and their safety.
Fun fact. That MRAP does not protect against .50 cal rounds.
- Sounds like they are in desperate need of an M1A2 Abrams then
- All the better reason for the government to fund the airstrike option.
[...] only because they ~~don't have the~~ ran out of funding for an airstrike from an A-10.

FTFY
- Haven't seized enough cash to fund an airstrike from an A-10.
- Operating an A-10, without firing its nose gun, runs about 19k-25k and hour. A full load of rounds is 1200. They fire at a rate of 3900 rounds per minute. The rounds, depending on the exact type, cost between 90 and 175$ per round. This also doesn't include the cost of maintaining the gun which incurs a lot of maintenance because of all the heat, and forces, involved.
...yet
- Didn't police actually bomb parts of a town? But that might be from my limited knowledge about history

Slightly too big to fit through a school hallway. Just big enough to wait outside in the parking lot. We'll take it - TX police

Illegally parked, no less

Intra-uterine devices?

Lol yeah, i like how no one else realizes it’s supposed to be IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
- They meant what they said. It's Texas- they seem far more afraid of women's issues than explosives.
It's Texas. They're terrified of the demon birth control.
Patrick tends to later his wry social commentary - that is 100% on purpose.

I don't understand how normal people don't see this and instantly become radicalized

Oh, me? Nah. Now, that car, damn that's radical. Imma gonna enlist! :D

No, really, why do you think they post these?
- because they believe those boots will never be on their necks, that's why
I'm sure they do. But radicalized to do what? Wave a sign? Write an angry letter? Vote?

Besides, excessively strident opposition to the police MRAP will get you labeled a tankie.
- No, shilling for Russia will get you labeled as a tankie. Not wanting police to have what is essentially a light tank, will not get you labeled as a tankie. Don't try to dilute the term.
- You won’t get labeled a tankie if you think the people’s police shouldn’t have one either. Then you get labeled an anarkiddie

This is a little town on the north outskirts of the Dallas metro area with a population of about 38,000. The reasons they need it are innumerable. /s

In case the Mean Green were to turn liberal and rise up!

Protect from IUDs?! intrauterine devices?? They sure are taking birth control seriously in Prosper boys..

Improvised Uterine Device? Medically-assisted abortions are gone but the police still need protection from coat hangers.
I mean those gentleman need an MRAP to keep all the ladies off of them. You never know when an IUD is going to get you.
Is this a typo? I can't find what IUD could mean otherwise.
- Seems like some sort of understated pun with IEDs and DUIs. Just guessing.

Looks like they are ready to violently suppress the rioting MAGAts when they riot after their criminal leader is imprisoned. What's that? Those that work forces are the same that burn crosses? I guess they're ready for any counter-protestors.

IUD?

Intra-Uterine Device??

How much of a threat is female birth control to these people??

insert joke about police officers and domestic violence here

Militarization of police.

Can't use military on U.S. soil against its citizens? Turn police into the military to be used against its citizens.

Also: does the US have less troops on the ground around the world than they usually do? Gotta find a new market for the military industrial complex.
- Don't worry.. terrorism will never end and wars will always find a way to creep back into our lives.

Prosper, Texas.

Population: 37,746

Crime rate per 1000 residents: 9.54

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/prosper

Nearby Dallas' crime rate? 46.06 per 1000 residents.

Is it me or is this not exactly justified?

I suggest anyone interested in the history of police militarization pick up Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop. There are so many tiny little towns with fully kitted out SWAT teams. Cops are taught to view themselves as soldiers in hostile territory. They go to trainings where they’re taught bullshit science to encourage them to kill.
- They are soldiers in hostile territory. They're occupying indigenous land. Killing a cop isn't murder, it's warfare according to the proper rules of engagement.
Not even in Dallas. But hey, at least some small town got to employ people to build this tank, and not call it socialism.
- The "tank" was gonna be built either way. These items are purchased through a program that allows the military to sell off surplus equipment to law enforcement. So, basically, it's a way of subsidizing the v already insane US military budget with money drawn from municipal and state taxes, while getting military hardware into the hands of cops.
- It's even stupider than that.
  
  It's either military surplus or reconditioned units that are offered for resale to stateside PD's to "pacify" civilian unrest.
It depends through which glasses you look.

For them every black person, LGBTQ person and woman who wants to own their own body by having an abortion is a criminal. And according to right wing extremist propaganda the leftists are extremely dangerous, so I guess that would justify the purchase of military equipment.

Do you have any idea how deadly woke people are? Every time someone shouts "black lives matter" a white Karen's feelings are hurt. The only way to combat this is assault rifles and infantry vehicles.
- I get the sentiment but this kind of hyperbole helps nobody
Crime rate just means people who are arrested. They can increase or decrease it if they want to.
- Wait...you think that if someone gets murdered, but they don't arrest anyone, this doesn't go into the crime rate?
- Do you think cops who are buying that sort of shit are reluctant to arrest people?
Now check the stats for crimes involving IUDs (or IEDs)
Very normal for suburbs (particularly white suburbs adjacent to black urban neighborhoods) to act like they're living in a war zone, because they saw a guy in a durag smoking a scary cigarette outside of the gym.
I recently lived in Denton and frequently traveled to Prosper for various reasons.

It's a little rich person town in the middle of nowhere. They definitely don't need this.

POV your local police department turns into an occupying military force. This is beyond dystopian. 2024 ❌ 1984 ✅

Police don't but they often want a vehicle for SWAT related reasons, but SWAT trucks costs hundreds of thousands. Meanwhile MRAPs are "free".

Prosper, Texas is home to 40,000 people. In 2010 their population was under 10k. They have quadrupled in size and are near the DFW area, so it's not really a surprise they took the 1033 offer for an MRAP. That said most of these decom'd heaps of shit are loathesomely expensive. "High Cost of Free MRAPs" by Strongtowns. Most MRAPs being given out are first and second gen versions. And for those first gens, they got sent to the front lines of the GWOT and got beat to shit while newer ones were tested and approved. These old models they're "giving out for free" have tire drum parts never used on later versions, transmissions like that of an F650 with half the reliability, and are ticking time bombs of use. Most cities often estimate maintenance costs at $5k per year, until something actually breaks and they have to get a second MRAP to cannibalize to fix the first. (Hint - that's why you often see them picked up in pairs or more)

That's before the optics. Petaluma, California has one and the police chief has even said "yeah it kinda has some bad optics sending police around in a former war machine".

If your city is wanting to pick one up, it's because someone who has zero experience with them really likes the idea of a big scary diesel monster rolling up on drug houses, and hasn't actually considered that if they can't pony up thousands of tax dollars every 6 months to keep the moneymonster fed, the only place it's gonna drive is into a storage shed.

Edit: I should add that these vehicles are incredibly versatile and aren't necessarily a bad thing for municipalities. With their ride height, sheer bulk, and high torque engines, Fire and rescue could probably make great use them in several cities. They make fantastic road clearing vehicles in the event of large accidents needing to move to the side of the road, or pushing debris out of the way. Additionally in flood prone areas they make very good rescue vehicles due to their ride height and "crew space" inside. They DO have value outside of terrorizing civilian populations, just that that's all PDs will use them for.

“Storage shed, you say” - Local Sheriff
Thank you for the extra information.

Intra-uterine devices?

It's Texas, you never know when someone might be in danger of wanting to have some level of control over their own body.
Yes that's part of it. It's also a play on IED. Improvised explosive device aka a bomb.
- I think it's a typo friend
That was the joke, yes
They will drive this beast right up your vagina.

This is probably more dangerous for them then a normal car. The features that make a MRAP good at surviving an IED also make them top heavy and easy to roll. I'm fairly sure they are more likely to have a reckless driver behind the wheel then have a roadside bomb.

I have a feeling this will sit in a garage most days. It will only come out for July 4th parades and to drive through some brown persons house "accidentally" during a welfare check.
- It will only come out for July 4th parades and to drive through some brown persons house “accidentally” during a welfare check.
  
  Don't forget about running over protesters. Way better than your average SUV.
  
  https://youtu.be/vBz2tE7d-iQ
Yup. Have fun driving to that emergency at (checks notes) 35 mph.

Looks like it already has an oil leak

It’s just so damn full of fossil fuel, it’s bursting at the seams.
It's military. If it wasn't leaking oil, it wouldn't work.
You know that thing has gotta be a hangar queen that measures efficiency in gallons per mile. I guess the towncs educators are gonna have to tighten their belts some more.

"Yippy Dippy Doooo!!!! We can hide in here as the kids get killed in Uvalde!!!!" - Texas Cops

Citizens: votes them all back in. Excellent work!
- I think I get where you're going with this, but law enforcement isn't hired by the public, except maybe the Sheriff, depending on where you are...

The Pedestrian & Protester Pulverizer 9000™️

.. to hide in while your children are being shot at.

Iud's are baby killers. They stop cop sperm from impregnating their victims.

The female body just has a way of shutting impregnation down in the case of cop rape. Its in the Bible.

OBVIOUSLY it's so that next time there's a SCHOOL SHOOTING they can rock up in STYLE while they wait for the Shooter to run out of Bullets or Bodies whichever happens first!

After they take 40 minutes to go a 5 minute drive in this thing... Next time the excuse will be, "our equipment wasn't there yet!"

Someone spent their civil forfeiture money at the military surplus store.

I've never wanted to blow something up so bad in my life. I mean, I don't want anyone to get hurt and I wouldnt actually do this since its stupid, but the desire is very strong.

I believe it's one part gas to one part oil. I could check with my mixologist friend. He made a lot of cocktails during the winter on fire.
- He spent the winter on fire? Did he survive?
- I've always subscribed to the styrofoam dissolved in gasoline until no more can be dissolved school of cocktail mixing
- Serve gas and tar mixers for an impression that lingers.

I like that it pissed itself.

An acorn probably fell nearby.

If you need this type of vehicle as police, you're the issue, not the people around.

I love how they are displaying their parking skills

Mobile oppression palace?

To counter those vicious abortists

The fun thing is a lot of smaller departments find out after they get something like this, they can't afford to actually use or maintain them. Shit be expensive yo.

My extremely rural county of 60k population has one for some reason. The best part is, the one time there was actually an armed and dangerous individual on the run, they called in aid from a major city an hour away. They did however parade around with it and strongly consider actually pulling at the tractor pull with it

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- It's absolutely wannabe soldier types being jealous of the military toys and begging to have have them paid for by the cities.
  
  You don't look to your neighbor anymore to keep up with the Jones' you now know of and look at hyper specialized interests and tools.
  
  Similar to how people have entire production centers in their houses revolving around resin crafting and 3D printing. Now everyone can get the cancer they were so jealous of.
  
  Definitely bad in this case.
My extremely rural county of 60k population has one for some reason.

The reason is that it's decommissioned from the military and police forces get a massive discount on buying equipment decommissioned from the military.

Slaps hood. "You can kill so many dogs with this baby"

NO PARKING

IUD

SIS

Stay in School

Cuz it's the best

I understand it's a pun on Texas' crippling fear about giving women birth control options.

Sitting in it while a school shooter blasts some kids.

Bulldozing the whole school to make sure they get the shooter.

Improvised Uterine Devices

All that’ll be available there soon

Genital compensation of course

In another five years, every suburban dad will be driving one so they can feel safer
- Unless they come equipped with cameras around their perimeters, anyone could sneak up to one and plant a couple bricks of semtex with remote detonators in strategic places and that safety gets real sketchy

Wait! You're saying that your police department doesn't get blown up by multiple IEDs every week? How odd.

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I mean, in any revolution within the US, it would be cops trying to play soldier vs the citizens in the initial moves.

Folks like to think the army, or the marines are what we would be fighting. Maybe eventually, after things get far enough along, but the first steps in seizing control is removing the police because they're the ones that will be guarding property and responding to attacks against politicians and/or oligarchs.

Of course the cops want to play soldier. There's enough of them in place because they're infiltrators from extremist groups. Often the most rabid racist groups. It's no secret at all that their plan is to be in place to seize control themselves.

I don't buy into the literal acab bullshit, only the systemic version. But that system is bad, and part of what's making it worse is this kind of thing. Those assholes right there? Those are the guys you'll want to be watching if shit gets real.

Which is funny because part of the reason to have civilian police is that they don't report to the military and ideally would side with the civilians against a tyrannical government.
- Funnily enough, cops would probably not know a tyrannical government until it knocked on down their door.

...parking policy enforcement.

well we know texas hates birth control. now they can obliterate it with superior force

Americans have free access to drones, better build a cope cage.

It says no parking in the fire lane, assholes.

Yeah, it would seem that the reason they own this is so that they can block the fire lane.

I'm not sure that thing has enough fuel to get out of the fire lane.
- They’re gonna say they’re allowed to park there for emergency purposes. But taking dick pics with your buddies is not an emergency.

Not only is it ridiculous and likely unnecessary, but also consider they'll need to budget maintenance costs for this.

They get to be abhorrently expensive. Newark NJ got 2 Vietnam era helicopters (one for parts only) and in 5 years spent 1.13 million just keeping it around to fly for 4 hours every other Friday/Saturday.

Decom stuff is a maintenance moneypit
Don't worry. They'll take it out of the budget they don't use to pay for lawsuits.
- The budget formerly known as “the education budget.”

It's the Evil Unimog

Protect and oppress

Since nobody has offered te correct answer, I will:
It’s because increasingly so, the enemy is becoming you.

They're not compensating for something; they're compensating for everything.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with an MRAP, is a good guy with an MRAP.

Now if only we could find some bad guys with an MRAP...

There a 2 right in this picture

What is an IUD? Did they misspell IED?

No, they said what they said. IUD, Illegal Unwanted Darkskins

/s because that's way too fucking plausible, fuck me I think I need to wash my soul
- I think they meant IUD as in intrauterine device, because this is Texas and women are supposed to give birth, not avoid pregnancy
btw that response sounded a little rude, meant in jest though!
play on words
noun
A pun, or similar humorous use of language such as a double entendre.

:)

it was clearly marked no parking

hypocrites

this is needed and justified to compensate for small brains and small penises

The ONLY reason you'd need something like this is maybe hurricane prone areas to get around flooded parts of the city

You mean like a boat? Like they use already?
- Where i live it's awfully common to use large vehicles like this to rescue people in flood waters. They have boats too for the deeper sections but trucks like this can roll through a neighborhood nonstop to search and rescue people.

But don't you see it makes perfect sense? Now they can wait outside schools with an active shooter in safety! Wouldn't want any officers getting hurt when children are getting shot now would we?

Why is it doing a Carolina squat?

Clearly to hand out speeding tickets /s

Getting ready for The Civil War: Round 2 I see.

This is how they celebrate? They point at a thing?

I hear Austin is a great place to live. The only problem is you might want to leave Austin once in a while.

Fo asking IDs.

I WANNA PLAY WITH THE MRAP!! But I'd... Like maybe not run over brown people with it, and instead use it as a force for good...?

Edit: or just fun.

Good morning, I hate America and wish for its total annihilation.

... freetime use, I suppose.

In case they gotta go against the government?

They need it to make us live in Judge Dredd's world.

A sign of things to come.

Just get an Abrams M1 for fucks sake!

Cops are too stupid to drive a tank.

Well if you go by their recent risk of floodings, well, floodings

Uh, sure. The police should walk around on pointe shoes, in pink ballet tutus and with bouquets of fresh flowers.

Oh, you know. In case these criminal groups ever cross the border and try to endanger the citizens of Texas:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-drug-cartel-video-jalisco-new-generation-weapons-military-cjng-a9626246.html

Storing it 10 hours north of the border (assuming it can reach highway speeds and only needs to stop for gas twice) might not be the strategic move you think it is
- Any closer and the cartels might steal it, though.
This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Also one of the dumbest things I've ever read coincidentally. But funny!
- The article is dumb? You should visit Mexico. Tell the federales that you hate the police.
Americans genuinely don't understand the difference between police and the military rofl
- Yeah, I’m sure you attended police academy, or served in the military, right? If you had, one of the first things they would tell you is to not have social media.