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.”
this is why we need the second amendment. this is what the Founding Fathers were afraid of… we will have to defend our selves from our own government.. where are the heroes in the gov?
I dare say my brother and his family live in Alabama and if I were them I would be moving.
Gestapo state.
I’m surprised Texas allowed them in
Big big mistake !
They should concentrate on fixing the $#%&!@* they messed up before trying to fix our $#%&!@*…. like obama care and the u.s. Mexico boarder. Haven’t you noticed that everything the government gets involved in falls apart,
Small steps lead to LARGE LEAPS!! Especially this traitor=BARRY-and his Crew!!
Civil war is on the horizon.
They should concentrate on fixing the $#%&!@* they messed up before trying to fix our $#%&!@*…. like obama care and the u.s. Mexico boarder. Haven’t you noticed that everything the government gets involved in falls apart,
Citizen arrest !!
Citizen Arrest !!! For starting a riot and interfering with an ongoing investigation and not keeping an oath which he took to serve and protect the cons$#%&!@*ution of the United States of America .
Justice use to be blind but with Obamacare he had the best Dr’s to do an eye transplant that can only see one way and that is his way only..