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.”
Thought Holder resigned. Why is he still in office.
Obama, Holder, Sharpton and Jackson are always stirring up trouble.
What is this BS
What?! Ugh, I can’t take much more of this…
IF ….ITS LIKE TAXES IT WILL NEVER END ….CITY TOWN after rural town
$#%&!@* IS HERE AGAIN
Sharia law beginning at the federal level–take over local law enforcement and change it to be more to the needs of the community?? Sounds like the beginning of the takeover–6 cities to make the policies work, then…
Exactly how $#%&!@* started with the secret police- the Gestapo. Gee how did that turn out? This is the first step in Nationalizing our Police Departments and having the Feds dictate our laws
I guess we have changed our government structure to Dictatorship. Here is your Change and Hope y’all voted for.
I agree with Dennis Clark. This man should be in jail.
Local and state law enforcement officers are among the few good honest people left in government these days. That’s why they are being attacked. They are seen as standing in the way by our corrupt government.
Did any of you whack jobs actually listen to what he said? I’ll bet not. He never said anything about any takeovers at all