re: #4 b.d.

Had to buy a tank instead

MRAPs aren’t tanks, but the Los Angeles School Police Department thinks they could be rescue vehicles:

The Los Angeles School Police Department, the largest school-based law enforcement agency in the country, is giving back three grenade launchers obtained under a Department of Defense program, but wants to keep some other gear- just in case.

As reported by the Associated Press, the agency will be returning three grenade launchers of unspecified type but will keep a surplus Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle as well as 61 M16 rifles. The rifles, agency officials point out, have been modified to fire semi-auto only, and the MRAP can be used as a rescue vehicle

“It’s something that we believe is a life-saving vehicle,” LAUSD Police Chief Steve Zipperman told CBS Los Angeles. “And certainly we realize we need to take a look, is this the best alternative right now for us until we find something else that is more conducive to a police-type of rescue.”

The grenade launchers, Zipperman says, are going because they are “not essential for our mission, so we will be disposing of those.”

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