Brian Jones: “Six billion dollars later, the Afghan national police cannot begin to do their jobs right, never mind relieve American…”

“Six billion dollars later, the Afghan national police cannot begin to do their jobs right, never mind relieve American forces. America has spent more than $6 billion since 2002 in an effort to create an effective Afghan police force--buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defense contractors to train the recruits--but the program has been a disaster. More than $332 million worth of invoices for police training were approved, even though the funds were poorly accounted for according to a government audit, and fewer than 12 percent of the country's police units are capable of operating on their own.”