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.”
Good job
People READ THE STORY FIRST. THEY ARE ASKING FOR SUPPORT
This is such a well written article. I had no idea Birmingham was a state. And reading all the comments above….you people are so intelligent and well informed!
This is bull$#%&!@*! Congress will defund or shut down DHS! Or, if they can’t do it, WE will! NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
You all sat on your $#%&!@*es and have done nothing to help preserve your freedoms and your rights as a American citizen while theses communist marxist islamist have been planning and slowly chipping away our cons$#%&!@*utional rights they have slowly but surely been replicating Our top US Military Commanders with Obama Bots who will follow his rule.. They have also been Taking over the last bit of Free Speech in our country by shutting down any programing speaking the truth about Obama and his Communist Islamic take over of our country!!! We see it happen right here in Pittsburgh 104.7 was all talk radio with guys like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Shawn Hannity, Mike Savage and many others that used to Speak out and tell you the real Truth about Obama and whats really happening in our country but 104.7 was forced to change its programing by this very corrupt Obama Government and if you dont believe that then your truly lost… Wake up The communist are coming for the rest of your Freedoms and Rights because nobody but us very few stood to try and stop them!!!!
Creel Allen Pickel Jr Thoughts on this?
You need to wake up!
Here it comes
Well we’ve known something was going to come out of all the homeland securiy stuff we’ve been seeing going on. Just wasnt sure how or when it was going to happen. Now we know. The take over, or maybe we should say take down, begins.
I just never thought it would be this open and direct. Are you or were you aware that this was going on in your state if it is one of the ones listed? Is your legislators or clty or county officials aware this has been going on there? Demand answers as to why you haven’t been told and what they plan on doing about. You need to light up switchboards and telephones and meetings if these named takeovers are in your area. We need to act now folks the desired end to their plans has been revealed and it could be complete by his term end. This may have something to do with his curious remarks about his plans that left us wondering what he meant since he would be leaving office in 2016. Some of us has wondered just how he thought he could remain in office. Now we know where the plans are going. Its either now or maybe never if we don’t get moving with some plans of our own. Be a people, not a sheeple.
needa convention of the states and tell him which states they’re not going to take over.