Beginning in 1990, Congress authorized the Pentagon to transfer its surplus property free of charge to federal, state, and local police departments to wage the war on drugs. In 1997, Congress expanded the purpose of the program to include counterterrorism in section 1033 of the defense authorization bill. In one single page of a 450-page law, Congress helped sow the seeds of what have been called „today‘s warrior cops“. The amount of military hardware transferred through the program has grown astronomically over the years. In 1990, the Pentagon gave $1 million worth of equipment to US law enforcement. That number had jumped to nearly $450 million in 2013. Overall, the program has shipped off more than $5.1 billion worth of materiel to state and local law enforcement, according to the DLA and is considered to be the primary contributing factor as to why police now conduct up to 80,000 SWAT raids a year in the U.S., up from only 3,000 a year in the early ‘80s.