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.”
Stop. Holder. Now!
OBAMA AND HOLDER BOTH NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!
Martial law, just the beginning. I am surprised that the Governor of Alabama did not object to this.
This is wrong on so many levels. A national police force is is nothing more than a paramilitary force meant to intimidate and control a population.
$#%&!@* DID THIS! WAKE UP ALL OF YOU THAT ARE SLEEPING!!!
There is a Black Motorcycle Gang in Birmingham that is pretty bad. Maybe they could clean that up ?
Where are our elected politicians whose job is to stop this kind of liberal takeover c**p?
It is now the first 10 States…Every Communist Country has governmental control of ALL Law Enforcement. If people don’t wake up to the fact that this TYRANT and his Muslim Regime has taken over America, it will be to late to do anything (if it’s not already too late).
Washington is not a State. The liberals will take the most liberal states to do their beta test. Then twist the numbers in their favor and lie again and again. They can’t do it in a Conservative State they won’t let them. A liberal State will bury their heads in the sand and say its great to save face. The truth is this is the start to dictatorship and socialism. This will not work for or in America.
Just as gun free zones in Chicago does not work. Since open carry in Illinois crimes is down in Chicago. Not my statistics but published government statistics.
Exactly! How is it people are so stupid they don’t know or see it!