BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed News on the quiet collapse of a bipartisan response to Ferguson. Lucas Jackson / Reuters WASHINGTON â Lawmakers vowed changes to the Pentagon programs that delivery military-grade equipment to local police after images of cops climbing out of armored vehicles with military-grade weapons filtered out of Ferguson, Missouri in August. But months later, the chaotic 1033 program â which sends surplus military gear built for combat to local police forces with little oversight â hasn't changed at all. The 113th Congress will end without substantive changes to the program. The White House hasn't announced the results of its policy review. The flow of billions in technology designed for the battlefield to local police forces will go on unabated. "The fear is that this is some kind of moment that passed. It's just another example of temporary interest in a crisis and inevitably things go back to normal," said Radley Balko, a prominent expert on police mil
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