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 thought holder was leaving?
Bad thing.
This Must Not Happend ! This has to be Stoped !
Keep the hell away from Mississippi! We take care of our own!
This article doesn’t give you enough facts to even understand what this program is but it sounds more like training and not a “takeover”. I’d like to have all of the facts. However, I had rather the feds stay out of state and local business b/c they generally spend a lot of taxpayer money and screw things up.
Welcome to $#%&!@*ism
It’s pretty clear he is going to try for a third term—
Ahole
$#%&!@* jr in control when will he be stopped that’s what we want to know?
How can the people in these cities and states as well as Congress sit back and do nothing to stop this action. If they want to live under a Marxist, socialist, or fascist state with a dictator in charge the I hope they are happy when theses police forces put on black uniforms and start attacking and jailing any one who does not believe in the system. $#%&!@* Obama as well as Heinrich Holder will be in charge and no one has the guts to take him out of office before he starts WWWIII.