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.”
THIS CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN!
Have you been reading about this program? Did you read the article? I have read and personally have friends and/or family members, black and white, many of the citizens are excited about the program because of the racial unrest and deep mistrust of the police departments. If sometime isn’t done soon, we will see more Ferguson springing up and you are crying out against this. Really! You want to see more people killed! Read the article they are NOT taking over the policing, they are bridging the racial gap. Some police department in these cities might be in trouble because of the unfair practice and treatment of their citizens
You wake up are read! Know the facts before you comments on issues you know nothing about. Read more than this article. I might really want to read this article again. This is a program to help bridge the racial gap in these cities. If sometime is not done, there will be more Ferguson’s springing up. You want to see more people killed? You call people crazy for liking this. I guess it’s easier to stick ones head into the sand
A revolution is on the way. Is this the new Soviet Union and $#%&!@* Germany working together to destroy America removing all freedoms?
WTF ?
We need to stand up, America!!! This should never be allowed to happen.
we don”t your $#%&!@* hands in none of our states, so keep your $#%&!@* out of our lives, you dam $#%&!@* bastards.
this is wrong, very wrong
very wrong indeed
omg!!! what mor4on police cheif thanks this is a bad bad idea and frightening