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> But cities don't want to spend that kind of money on these things as they would rather not tax people to pay for it.

I'm certainly no expert in police budgeting, but when you see some police forces literally buying tanks, at least in some cases there must be room for money to be better spent. John Oliver did an interesting story on police militarization after the Ferguson riots following the shooting of Michael Brown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdHIatS36A

>>michae+(OP)
They're not buying tanks, they're being gifted them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_program

>>ceejay+M1
Thanks for clarifying as I hadn't watched recently and I was misremembering. But certainly there must still be some expense associated with training and maintenance.