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.”
$#%&!@* Germany….. Hail obuthead
This is outrageous. A federal take over of state police? We need a Revolution before 2016 elections…
S$#%&!@*bag so apparently citizens are the only people who commit crimes and cops are the only people allowed to protect themselves.
Lets practice Martial Law in 6 states, we all know how those training drills worked out on 9/11, right? Meanwhile, DOJ “needs more time” to decide what to do to Hillary Clinton in clear Obstruction of Justice!! This is INSANITY!
The government will be opening up a can of worms they won’t be able to close.
Do federal troops include United Nations personnel? Just asking?
THIS..is Bull$#%&!@*…Norman Halliday…complete and utter c**p…this can not be allowed to happen…
Sigh.
Folk don’t know their history, or reality, but need to spin up with this irrational hate mongering fear for the last seven years as we were supposed to have all these countless things happen “any minute now”. FOR SEVEN YEARS.
And thax to everyone we set back and didn’t do a damp thing about it, we deserve it stupid us.
good come to oregon feds get rid of the corruption