وزارة الدفــــاع تزود شرطة الجامعــات بمعدات وأسلحة منها قاذفات قنابل ومدرعات مقاومة للألغام(صور)

Quote: From The Chronicle comes “On Campus, Grenade Launchers, M-16s, and Armored Vehicles.” Here’s a quote: Should the campus police at the University of Central Florida ever need a modified grenade launcher, one sits waiting in the department’s armory. Retooled to fire tear-gas canisters, the weapon was used several years ago for training purposes, according to Richard Beary, the university’s chief of police. It hasn’t left storage since. At Central Florida, which has an enrollment of nearly 60,000 and a Division I football team, the device was acquired, a police spokeswoman said, for “security and crowd control.” Yikes. It takes so little imagination to see how campus cops might get out of hand with this equipment during a student protest or what-not. This is the same Department of Defense program that gave the cops in Ferguson, Missouri all of the military-grade hardware that fueled the riots in that town last month. The good news, as far as I can tell from this table the CHE includes with the story, is that most of the stuff the DoD has given to college campuses is pretty mundane and there isn’t a lot of it in Michigan. MSU got a bunch of stuff that looks like it is mostly surgical/first aid gear; U of M got some computers and barriers (I presume the sort of thing you’d put up to redirect traffic), and Western got one “Mount, Sight” and 20 “Face Shields.”