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.”
I am no fan of Holder, but I watched the video and he did NOT announce federal takeover. He announce a cooperative effort, working”side by side” with the local police departments. Now that can mean a variety of things, including eventual takeover. But that is NOT what was said and I hate it when post like this misrepresent the truth. Let’s be honest about these things….. Yes the program could lead there, but that is not what was said!
Start with Cal, your program will fall apart…hee hee!
so just before the next elections, marshal law will be declaired, obama will cancel elections and stay in as dictator, every home will be raided for guns and we will be forced to convert to muslem or be rounded up into camps
THE IDIOTS THAT RUN BIRMINGHAM AL, SOLD THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE AND WORK IN B’HAM OUT…I WOUNDER WHERE THE 4.7 MIL. WILL GO AND WHO’S POCKETS..SAME PEOPLE THAT RUN’S B’HAM. ARE JUST LIKE THE ONES THAT RUNS WASHINGTON..I WONDER IF MR. BELL HAS EVER SEEN THE MOVIE RED DAWN??
Federales, just what we need. I don’t like this so much………
Even a side by side smells of illegality. That’s why we don’t have a Federal police force. What exactly is he not disclosing? This is something that could turn ugly quickly.
Put that communist liberal Obama sucking racist criminal in jail where he belongs
Keep the federal government out of our local law enforcement!!!
You’ve got to be f$&#ing kidding…
Come here and try that you commie pigs!!!!!!!!!!