For the Price of 2 Armored Assault Vehicles, We Could Have 10 Bus Shelters – Next City
▻http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/militarization-police-cost-assault-vehicles-nonviolent
To create this infographic, I looked at Defense Department records of military equipment transfers to urban county police departments around the U.S. I then compared the costs of the DoD military equipment with costs of other sorts of government purchases to give a sense of how federal dollars could otherwise be spent in our cities. I used #infrastructure price averages from this UNC Highway Safety Research Center report, as well as prices from sources such as Newsworks, Time and the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
