DHS Terror Funds Creating Police Grid

CEDAP awardees have included local FEMA offices, fire and emergency units, and local and state police. The grantees’ own websites glorify the use of the CEDAP equipment to do everything from fighting crime to rescuing kittens from trees. The equipment was appropriated by Congress to the DHS to stop terrorism, yet there is little evidence that any of this equipment has been used to find one terrorist or prevent one single terrorist attack. It’s all done to stop red light runners, tail gaters, dead beat dads, and local dope sellers, all problems that could be solved with some good old detective work and a court order. Millions of dollars in used equipment, sometimes military equipment, does not need to be funded to the states just to get cats out of trees and sniff out marijuana bags at the local high school.