The Indiana Department of Homeland Security has provided us with a remarkably unredacted look at their EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact) agreement with North Dakota. 37 sworn law enforcement officers from nine different Indiana agencies including Indianapolis Metropolitan PD, were deployed to Morton County. Their mission lasted for 18 days and went through late October to early November.
Along with an identical EMAC request to the one we saw from the Governor of Wyoming, we also got more detailed information about what North Dakota was actually paying for. Like in the case of Dane County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin, Indiana DHS provided North Dakota with estimates for how much things would cost- $50,814 for travel, $277,694 on equipment, and $399,928 to the responding officers. That breaks down to a grand total of $727,808.
This was just an estimate, and we haven’t been able to track down how much North Dakota actually ended up paying – it is possible that North Dakota hasn’t been able to reimburse some agencies thus far. Dane County Sheriff’s Office, for example, went significantly over budget – after just one week of deployment, they already had cost North Dakota taxpayers $2,000 more than the IDHS estimate.
In a marked difference between this response and others we have received, we also received a detailed list of the equipment that the Indiana contingent brought with them, and how much North Dakota was charged for them.
Here are some of the highlights:
- 42 “sidearms” (judging from the individual officer’s paperwork, these are various Glock models): $16,464
- 37 (one for each officer!) Bushmaster AR-15’s: $14,504
- 16 outfits of riot gear: $9,408
- 23 shotguns: $9,016
- 21 pairs of Gen III night vision goggles: $8,232
- 37 seemingly department issued cell phones: $6,160
- 21 pairs of binoculars: $1,029
- 10 spotting scopes (possibly used as part of a sniper team): $490
- 2 tear gas launchers of different sizes: $784
- 1 TAC 700 pepper ball launcher: $392
- 1 thermal imaging camera: $784
In addition to all this gear, Indiana law enforcement agencies brought seven ATV’s (two models), 23 pickup trucks which cost North Dakota $117,208 (three models), five Ford SUV’s and two Dodge Chargers. This convoy cost North Dakota $149,000, and that isn’t including actual fueling costs.
We at MuckRock are currently working to figure out just how much cash North Dakota invested on suppressing the Standing Rock protests.
Read the full equipment list embedded below, or on the request page.
“37 (one for each officer!) Bushmaster AR-15’s: $14,504”
Guess we won’t be picking THOSE up.
Hope their ammo is a lot higher quality.
Overall, sounds like one of Chump’s wet dreams.
This is illegal on so many levels I can’t count them all. And, WTF is up with paying for all that equipment? Are those rental fees or does North Dakota get to keep all that crap?
I thought the same. Must be rental for the Gen 3 NV, as they start at 3k and up per. That, or I wanna shop where they shop on our dime.
Not only wrong, but HIGHLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Police are NOT afforded constitutional rights under ANY circumstance! They are also NOT recognized as being able to have rights, and were NEVER granterd any such privilege either!
Their transporting public property outside the state represents FELONY THEFT, TAKING PROPERTY NOT OWNED, and DEPRIVING the state of that property by illegal acts,and offences.
Treason charges for willingness to defy the constitution, assault, fire upon, and brutalize the free people within the borders of their home nation, which, by their act of war, is an executable offense! NO public entity was ever granted the power to wage war against their own people, and no publicly funded agency has the right to actively engage in acts of war, wage war, assault, attack, torture, brutalize or maim any citizen of the United States!
ALL law enforcement agencies acting as their own sole enforcement arm, and without legal, constitutional powers, is hereby GUILTY OF TREASON AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES!
SUCH ACTS OF PERSON VENDETTA, battle, bringing military personnel AND EQUIPMENT built only for combat, IS A clear and present danger t the people of the state, and to the nation as a whole!
no police agency was granted constitutional poers to wage any war against the people…they all must be taken into custody, prosecuted, then executed publicly for their open acts of treason against the nation!!
NO LENIENCY SHAL;L BE GRANTED TO ANY TRAITOR!
ALL MUST BE LOCATED, ARRESTED AND PROPERLY DISPOSED OF BY OUR CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS!
STOP BOWING DOWN TO GOVERNMENT TERRORISTS AND EMP[LOYEE TERROR…NO HIRED POLICE CAN HOLD POWER OVER THE PEOPLE…NOR CAN ANY BE GRANTED TO ANY EMPLOYEE THAT IS SUPERIOR TO THE POWER ONLY THE PEOPLE LAWFULLY AND LEGALLY RETAIN FOR THEMSELVES!
NO EMPLOYEE HAS ANY AUTHORITY OVER THEIR EMPLOYER, NO MATTER WHAT A TOWN MOUTHPIECE WILL TELL YOU, THEY CAN NOT!
BY USURPING OUR LEGAL POWERS, THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO CONVERT UR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS WE HAVE, INTO PRIVILEGES, CONTROLLED BY THE VERY CRIMINALS OUR DECLARATION AND CONSTITUTION HAVE FORBIDDEN TO BE ALLOWED!
SHOW WHERE IN EITHER, THE DECLARATION, OR THE CONSTITUTION, GRANTED AUTHORITY, POWER OR CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE BY ANY HIRED HAND, EMPLOYEE, OR UN-ELECTED PERSON!
WE HAVE NO SUCH AMENDMENTS, NO SUCH AUTHORIZATIONS, AND NOBODY CAN BE GRANTED MORE RIGHTS OR POWER THAN THE PEOPLE!