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.”
Holder is another sad $#%&!@* in Obama’s the administration.
Good luck !!! Bama’s got more guns than you can shake a stick at! What happened to States Rights??
It’s getting close to the time for American patriots to rid itself of a government that runs rufshod over the people with unacceptable personal agendas. We as a nation must reestablish the basic cons$#%&!@*utional forms as they were intended. We must remove the rules put in place by agencies made up of non elected officials and require our representatives to actually do their jobs. We must prosecute those who do not abide by their sworn oaths. Federal take over of local law enforcement is against states rights and those officials need hung.
Not going to happen.
Writing new laws acting on what he wants, is all from a tyrant/tyranny, its time to stop him, cause he’s not looking to leave comes the end of 2016. He setting everything over to take over!.
We better not let that happen.
Stay out of Law Enforcement.
Here we go – Marshal law by Oct. 2016. Obama and his “P**s Ants” are putting their Marxism plan into place and our government is holding the door open for him
Our sherriffs supercedes all of them. Even Obama and his croonies are below what our sherriffs stand for. A posse of them are way above this lawless Gov.
we will remember 2016……….unseat them