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Automatic rifles. Armored vehicles. Even helicopters. This is just some of the surplus military equipment police departments throughout Connecticut, as well as the country-have been getting from the Federal government. A couple of weeks ago, ACLU attorney David McGuire sat down with New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman at Yale to discuss the issue. More
here.