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.”
I just hope the American soldiers realuze what they are doing is wrong. I’m sure the upper military br$#%&!@* will inform them. When innocent Americans are starting to get killed, that’s when a civil uprising WILL occur…
Stop them from doing this
Still at dumb $#%&!@*
You do know Obama has replace much of the military br$#%&!@* don’t you?
Go eat a can of $#%&!@*
Not True Bogus news! Makes Media $$$$
Where is Count von Staufenberg when you need him?
Local and state police had better start standing up to the dictators in DC
ere’s the Horse Sense: More government is never a good idea. And federal control of local and state law enforcement is nothing short of a repeat of what happens over and over again when countries fall to totalitarian regimes.
President Obama has spent the last 6 years not just taking apart our government, but changing it. That’s what fundamental transformation is. Every aspect of our lives are being taken over. The latest is a new move planned by Obama to federalize police forces across the country. Once that happens, tell me the difference between America and any totalitarian regime. America no longer has a government by the people. America is becoming a nation enslaved.
Many areas of our lives are being taken over by the government. For example, we have Obamacare which took over our healthcare system. We’ve now got Obamanet which has just taken over and will control the internet. Now the Daily Caller is reporting that President Obama’s next planned action is to federalize the police across the nation, something the Daily Caller has dubbed Obamalaw.
Likely they on board with DOJ