Here’s the list of military equipment held by Sacramento police, county Sheriff’s Office
The Sacramento City Council recently voted to approve the Sacramento Police Department’s acquisition of a military-style armored vehicle, the Rook, and fueled public frustration over what critics call police militarization.
Because of Assembly Bill 481, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September 2021, local law enforcement agencies must post their inventory of military weapons, ammunition, vehicles and tools. According to those records, the following pieces of equipment make up some of the arsenal in the capital region.
SACRAMENTO POLICE DEPARTMENT
As of April 30, 2022, the Sacramento Police Department had:
- 79 unmanned aircraft systems or drones
- five robots
- two armored vehicles known as Bearcats
- one mobile incident command center
- one crisis negotiation team vehicle
- four long-range acoustic devices to clearly broadcast commands from a distance or to disperse crowds through loud high-frequency noises
- 102 launchers that fire so-called less lethal rounds such as sponge rounds
- 503 of those rounds
- 619 shotguns that fire beanbag rounds
- 2,525 beanbag rounds
- two launching cups that attach to the beanbag shotgun so that those shotguns can be used to launch chemical agents or smoke
- 148 flash-bangs also known as stun grenades
- two AR-10 rifles for long-range shooting
- two .308 caliber precision rifles
- 20 short-barreled rifles that are optimized for use inside buildings
- 322 lightweight semiautomatic rifles
- 2 somewhat different short-barreled rifles that are optimized for use inside buildings and ammunition for those firearms
- 50 canisters that break into three tear gas-spraying parts 20 feet apart
- 75 tear gas grenades for use outdoors that spray for 20 to 40 seconds
- 20 tear gas grenades optimized for use indoors
- 28 more tear gas grenades for use inside buildings
- 18 pepper spray grenades
- 100 pyrotechnic smoke grenades
- 11 blue smoke grenades
- 82 pepper spray grenades designed for use in outdoor crowds
- 26 pepper spray canisters that break into three pieces
- 16 pepper spray vapor grenades
- 28 launchable pepper spray grenades
- 28 pepper spray cannisters that can be hand-held foggers
- five streamers that deliver 14 bursts of pepper spray
- 28 foggers that deliver 14 bursts of pepper spray
- 10 cannisters that deliver 26 bursts of pepper spray
- 1,000 feet of detonating cord
- 90 blasting caps used to set off larger explosive devices
- five breaching shotguns and ammunition
- 61 pepperball launchers
- 3,000 2% pepperballs
- 3,000 5% pepperballs and 1,950 pepperballs designed for “area saturation”
SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
As of Sept. 19, 2022, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office had:
- 48 remotely-operated drones or robots
- two armored cars
- three military-style trucks including two Bearcats
- a five-ton dump truck for emergency aid during flooding
- a Youth Services Unit Humvee for community outreach events outfitted with an Xbox
- another Humvee used to bring sheriff’s department dogs to community events
- a Rook
- a tactical command vehicle
- a tactical communications vehicle
- 750 feet of detonating cord
- 50 blasting caps used to set off larger explosive devices
- eight rifles designed to shoot targets at a distance of up to 550 yards
- 16 rifles designated for use protecting Folsom Dam
- a rifle for use against an armored target up to 1000 yards away
- 26 semiautomatic specialized rifles
- 18 AR-15-style rifles
- 480 flash-bangs also known as stun grenades
- 250 projectiles which a tear gas agent designed to promote “pain compliance,” 225 smoke grenades that contain a tear gas agent
- 245 grenades which send out a larger amount of tear gas agent
- 175 smoke grenades that contain a tear gas agent
- 150 pepper spray grenades
- 150 tear gas grenades
- 130 additional combination tear gas and pepper spray grenades
- 95 powder grenades with a tear gas agent
- 80 powder pepper spray grenades
- 25 launchable rubber grenades that contain a tear gas agent
- 58 launchable grenades that contain a tear gas agent
- 58 barricade-penetrating teargas grenades
- 50 devices that mist out 14 short bursts of pepper spray through a crowd
- 50 devices that stream out 14 short bursts of pepper spray through a crowd
- 75 “sting-ball” grenades that distribute stinging pellets
- 70 “sting-ball” grenades that also distribute a tear gas agent
- 50 chemical irritant “tear-ball” grenades
- 65 smoke grenades that break into three separate pieces
- 50 white smoke grenades
- eight pepper ball launchers to fire pepper-ball projectiles
- 12,000 pepper-ball projectiles
- four long-range acoustic devices to clearly broadcast commands at a range of 600 meters or to disperse crowds through loud high-frequency noises
- two long-range acoustic devices mounted on Folsom Dam
- 587 beanbag shotguns
- 50,000 beanbag rounds
- 45 launchers that can fire a single “sponge round,” one launcher that can fire multiple “sponge rounds”
- 7,500 sponge rounds
This story was originally published February 19, 2023 at 5:00 AM.
Ariane Lange
The Sacramento Bee