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Military surplus transferred to police
Under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, surplus military equipment is given to American law enforcement agencies at no cost. This is what has been transferred, and to whom.
How complete this is. The Defense Logistics Agency identifies recipients by state and name only — there is no agency identifier in its data — so each record has to be matched to an agency by name. 88.9% of transfers matched a known agency; 660 recipient names did not, mostly state-level bodies and specialist units that do not correspond to a single FBI agency record.
This means an agency page showing no equipment is usually an agency that received none — but it can also be one whose name we could not match. Police Census does not guess: an unmatched record is left unattached rather than assigned to a plausible-looking force.
Largest recipients
Ranked by the Department’s original acquisition cost of everything transferred, not by what the equipment would be worth today.
Source
Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office — public information data as at 30 June 2026. Published by DLA as a workbook of per-state transfer records. Reproduced here without adjustment; totals are sums of the published acquisition values.