Building a public database of police weapons

Why I'm taking my haters' advice and learning to code

Last month I wrote about the Department of Defense’s long-running 1033 Program, which funnels tanks, grenade launchers, sniper scopes, and automatic rifles into the arsenals of local police departments.

I was thinking about that subject at the time because I’d just watched my own city’s police department roll out a pair of ominous-looking Mine-Resistant …