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.”
Seems legit.
The criminals are very excited of the up and coming failure.
Ha true
Stop them now, it’s illegal uncons$#%&!@*utional grab for power.
Sounds like communism to me.
I did not hear anything about “taking over” State and local police departments.
This is very alarming!
Tim Ehlers, I heard the same thing you did. I’ve read some of these newspaper accounts as well. I haven’t found any of these stories that are based in fact. Again, a small hand full of nut job newspapers suffering from paranoia.
Any Sheriff that allows this in his jurisdiction is a failure! The federal government does not have the authority to supersede a duly elected County Sheriff; they are actually the highest form of law enforcement on our country. There is no way in hell this is going to be allowed by “We The People”!!
What the hell are you all talking about? This is re-education and addtional training. There is no “takeover” of any police dept. However, Ferguson, Missouri’s police department could be seriously monitored. When you think about it, clearly, that is, if the local police, the sheriff’s departments and the state police cannot control the situation? Who does one call? The pizza delivery guy? Stop acting like a bunch of gossips spewing your nonsense like it actually was true.