Birmingham, AL has been chosen as one of 6 states the feds will use to pilot the nationalization of local and state law enforcement agencies. Touted as initiative to ‘build community trust’ between citizens and local police, this takeover follows the age-old Marxist pattern of cloaking despotism within a faux security blanket.
The other pilot cities include Ft. Worth, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Stockton, Birmingham and Gary, Indiana.
Attorney General Eric Holder made the announcement today. The $4.7 million National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice was announced in April and is a partnership between federal officials and criminal justice experts focused on providing training, policy and research to address distrust between citizens and law enforcement.
The other pilot cities are: Ft. Worth, Gary, Indiana, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Stockton. The initiative comes after several high profile fatal police-involved shootings.
“We are truly honored that DOJ would select Birmingham as one of six national pilot sites,” said Birmingham police Chief A.C. Roper. “The mayor and I actually started discussing this initiative several months ago and knew there would be over 100 cities vying for the limited opportunities.”
“We’re all aware of the modern day issues and national discussion on policing in America. Although we’ve worked extremely hard building bridges in our communities we saw this initiative as an opportunity to strengthen relationships, increase public cooperation, and improve the perception of police legitimacy across our city,” Roper said. “We truly recognize that the Birmingham Police Department cannot be successful without community support and community trust. This three year project will allow us to serve as a national police model and increase our capacity to serve our citizens.”
The Department of Justice started the initiative as part of the My Brother’s Keeper program, which seeks to create opportunities for all young people throughout the country – regardless of background – to improve their lives and reach their full potential.
“We are always committed to engaging with the community to ensure that we are serving them and hearing their concerns,” Birmingham U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said in a prepared statement. “We want to do a good job of listening, so that we can work together to make the community safe. We appreciate the opportunity to be one of the six pilot sites in this initiative, and the recognition from Washington that we are trying to get it right down here.”
Someone needs to put a rein on this guy!
The S.S. Is alive and well ! Are those FEMA camps ,the new concentration camps ?
bs holder
I don’t like this idea at all! Smells fishy to me, not that I don’t trust Holder or anything! The goverment is to big already! I hope that must states will not allow it!
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get the hell out of the whitehouse racist
Who said they could even do this
Way to ignore all of the points and examples I listed for OBVIOUS attacks on your rights.
Never mind those facts, let’s just change the subject and repeat the 3rd grade Hannity projection/mind manipulation.
Ed, the fact that I brought up what you’d say before you’d say it is supposed to cause a light bulb to go off inside your head.
I lived in DC for a long time, I know the cats in the think tanks that write your reality and while they cash their seven figure salaries every year they laugh their $#%&!@*es off that idiots really believe them.
“Flip flopper! He voted for the war before he voted against it”
How many thousands of times did you repeat that? Without ever doing 3 minutes of research?
The same think tanks telling you to believe this, are the same ones that fed you Benghazi, flip flopper and “Saddam was involved in 9/11!!”
and you STILL can’t research any of it huh?
Thanks for zero civic duties at all!! I bet you’re proud to never have read a bill huh??
Look at security they have at the white house. They can’t run the federal government so how can they run state law enforcement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh! Slick little moves to start controlling city law enforcement. Just get that first little foot in the door to form a precedent and then start wedging your way in. Any laws not prescribed to the federal government in the cons$#%&!@*ution belong to the states. Or, at least, until the magicians gain control. Slick, Mr. Holder, slick. Watch out for your rights people. Of course to do that you have to study history and civics. Oh, that’s right, the liberals have control of the schools now. Well, so much for learning about your rights, kids.