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Anonymous ID: a34459 Feb. 16, 2022, 9:21 a.m. No.15642525 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>2611 >>2705 >>2718

Troop run to Ukraine?

LRADsjust mentioned on Portland Andy stream

Tanks and sound cannons

Police services across Canada have been acquiring military equipment ranging from Cougar light armoured vehicles (LAVs) to military-style rifles.

In 2014 the Canadian Forces (CF) handed over a decommissioned LAV—essentially a tank—to the Windsor, Ontario police department for a symbolic $1. The police then spent $13,000 fixing and disarming it (Wilhelm 2014). A year earlier the police in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia had received a similar CF discard (Boutilier 2014).

Some Canadian police services, including those in Ottawa and Winnipeg, have purchased armoured vehicles. As University of Ottawa criminologist Michael Kempa points out, these acquisitions have not been subjected to public discussion and oversight (Ottawa Citizen 2014). For example, the Winnipeg police budgeted $350,000 to purchase their vehicle. They notified the Winnipeg Police Board after the purchase. The Winnipeg Police Board responded with a policy that any future purchases over $100,000 would require prior Board approval.

Windsor and Toronto police forces, among others, have purchased military-style Colt C8 patrol carbines made in Kitchener (Boutilier 2014). The Toronto police purchased four sound cannons—Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD)—before the G8 and G20 summits in 2010 (Yang 2010). The Vancouver police acquired LRADs prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics (Mahoney 2010). In 2014 the Montreal police purchased two LRADs (Zapirain 2014).

Although domestic police services have bought LRADs to deal with public disorder or protests, the device was originally developed for the U.S. Navy by U.S. defence contractor LRAD Corporation after a 2000 al-Qaeda bombing attack on the USS Cole while it was being refueled in Yemen (Foege 2009). The LRAD has kept vessels away from U.S. ships and destroyers, particularly in the pirate-ridden Gulf of Aden, and was used by U.S. troops in Iraq to control crowds (Foege 2009).

The volume of sound generated by sound cannons ranges from 135 to 143 decibels, and the piercing alert function can cause permanent hearing loss (Yang 2010). According to The Economist (2004) the LRAD incapacitates anyone within 300 meters, causing instant headaches.

When the Toronto police purchased LRADs, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed an injunction with the Ontario Superior Court to ban the alert function (Mahoney 2010). As a result of the ruling by Justice David Brown, the Toronto police can only use the voice function. Vancouver and Montreal police have chosen to use only this function as well (Halais 2014). Interestingly, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) restrict the use of LRADs to marine operations (Freeze 2010).