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.”
Scary stuff.
lol !!! thought he was leaving ??? loser
Yes mark my word $#%&!@* has arrived
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision made not on the Cons$#%&!@*ution, but on the needs of society delegated, gave, granted, or implied, Congress the power to legislate uncons$#%&!@*utional civil rights laws; and those laws forced uncons$#%&!@*utional laws on the States and all citizens.
So what’s new about the federal government taking over the States? Better yet, when are citizens gonna start talking about correcting the federal government?
THIS IS RIDICULOUS. And most of this country is too damn stupid to understand why.
The State needs to tell the DOJ to pack sand.
no way
The federal government is on a mission and will use every opportunity to get it done. Taking over Ferguson Police Department is a pilot program! “Ferguson police are bad! All American police are like Ferguson!” This is the false logic the Federal Just-Us Department spiels to the American public….. $#%&!@* did this exact same thing before DISARMING THE CITIZENS and taking over the nation’s police force and replacing it with his own SS troops…now we know why it was so important for Obama’s Just-Us Department to convince the public the police are “BAD PEOPLE”! If everyone swallows his negative characterization of America’s local and state law enforcement, he can step in and take over on the federal level as the ‘Savior’ of social justice just a$#%&!@*ler did!! State and local law enforcement won’t roll over that easily!
$#%&!@* reincarnated!
Still there for some reason?? More BS from the Lying pack in Washington!