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.”
Looking through my pocket copy of the Constitution. I am having a hard time finding that clause that gives the federal government the power to control local and state law enforcement agencies. Maybe there is a constitutional professor out there that can help me find it
Give them ferguson first. Then we can all just sit back and watch the show that will be an epic fail.
The very group of lawless cowards Holder works for fanned all of these flames and funded this c**p so he could now state a reason. Reverse the logic and could understand what you normally might not. They always create a reason then step into it as if they have the answer so it can be accepted!
mind your own business,
If you read the article that goes with this post and watch the video posted with it you will see the headline that Truth and Action uses to get your intention is in no way truthful. Would be nice to see Truth and Action post the truth instead of turning everything around to meet their agenda. Now that that is said No I’m not a Obama fan and the sooner we get him out of office the better off we all will be!!!!!
Impeach
I don’t think this is a good thing.
Texans need to fight to keep the government out of Fort Worth and Texas….this is going to lead to Martial Law then a muslim take over then Sharia Law……it has NOTHING to do with helping local police and communities…Its a take over by DICTATOR OBAMA and his evil cronies….you people better wake up…..
Read this !! It’s a friggin joke, ” Limited opportunity ” my $#%&!@*, more like Widespread Panic
Wow! Talk about spinning $#%&!@* to fit your narrative. Anybody that believes the headline hasnt read the story from an independent source.