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’m not sure about this..but maybe. ..we can do away with some of this racism. .The police are already training from the Isreal training module handbooks. .but it was all ok as long as they were only shooting and killing young blacks! ..well, it’s expanding now!..Bad Boys Bad Boys what you gonna do when they come for you??!!
you shouldn’t be pissed at Obama or Holder…it’s a false story ….you should be pissed at the writers of these stories for writing them with sole purpose of getting the republican’s panties in a bunch ….actually they are good at what they do…cudos
Wake up America!!! $#%&!@*ing sheep!!
American are sheep
Wake up
this is trouble…..
Okay, I just watched the entire video.
I guess what I notice mostly is that there was nothing at all in what Eric Holder said that would reasonable give the impression that the federal government was taking steps to federalize local or state police forces.
Wtf, very irresponsible on the writers of this STORY! Nothing like starting a bunch of c**p!You people are almost as bad as a traitor
I did not watch this video however in the State I live in on a March 12 2015 most of the states newspapers ran the story about 6 federal ” police officers” were coming to Birmingham Al to help educate about racial bias and the mayor and police chief of Birmingham were quoted as saying this is a good idea and were happy their city was one of the ones selected.
This is c**p !