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.”
No.
justified or not, this seems to infringe on states rights unless their govenor was ok with it?
WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR 6YRS, STILL FALLING ON DEAF EARS.
Sounds like Marshall law
Try ‘martial’ and you may increase chances of appearing readable.
hell no
The feds taking over law enforcement in 6 states. The first step to America becoming a total police state and all of our rights being taken from us. God help us if this is allowed to happen.
Is’t that $#%&!@* started, Imposeing marshall law
Cons$#%&!@*utional……try learning basic English before delving into politics.
A target come on now check tge staticts how many cops actually die a day to how many they kill do your research a cops job is a very safe job and if a target is on there backs its there fault they the ones killing baby’s and innocent people so they put the target on there own backs look dude we need cops but we need good cops not corrupt cops the story has been twisted for years and theses racists cops need to go before they set the u.s. back a hundred years
Why don’t he just collect his paycheck and stay at home in his Black Panther uniform until Oblamy finds a worthy person to replace him that congress will approve!