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Just how stupid do thes e people think we are?
« on: September 28, 2015, 11:58:19 AM »
 Mounting concern over recent violent crime surges in some U.S. cities has prompted the Justice Department to call a meeting next month of more than a dozen local law enforcement officials to deal with persistent public safety threats, ranging from criminal gangs to domestic violence, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told USA TODAY in an interview.

The Justice summit builds on an increasing federal re-engagement with local police whose forces in the past two years have been buffeted by questions over lethal force policies and flagging public trust.

Earlier this year, in the face of rising tensions between the police and the public in communities across the nation, a special White House policing task force issued a slate of recommendations aimed at restoring public confidence. The Justice Department also has opened inquiries into the operations of more than 20 police departments across the country since 2009, including earlier this year in Baltimore where days of civil unrest was sparked by the death of a local man in police custody

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/28/crime-spikes-federal-action-yates/72924738/

Seriously?  This is the same play over and over again...create a crisis, exploit it, accrue more centralized power.  Rinse/repeat till opposition disappears.

What a load of crap!  But I'm done waiting for the local police to stop being the bitches of Fedcoats and Statist politicians....they made their bed, now they can die in the flames they helped fuel, why should I give a damn?
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Re: Just how stupid do thes e people think we are?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2015, 12:22:15 PM »
Yep.  Nationalizing the police.  Their financial "help" comes with strings.  You'd think more people would get that by now.
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Re: Just how stupid do thes e people think we are?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2015, 04:03:18 PM »
The most galling part of it is that it's your money in the first place.  The feds come in and hoover up tax revenues from every locality, then they deign to dole it back out a little at a time, like a mother bird into her chicks' hungry little mouths -- if you "agree" to their innumerable "voluntary" policies, that is.  Oh, and if you don't "agree" then good luck accomplishing your tasks without that federal money.

That's how "voluntary" anything is with Washington.  The doubly galling part is when they use this technique to sidestep the official limits on their authority, by claiming that you have "voluntarily" relinquished this or that right as part of the process of "agreeing" to the terms of their generosity.  They just engineer little ways to grant themselves de facto powers that are, in theory, denied them de jure.
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Re: Just how stupid do thes e people think we are?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2015, 06:54:41 PM »
This is what tyranny looks like. 

And collaborators of tyranny...

List - check.

Tick tock - check.
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Re: Just how stupid do thes e people think we are?
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2015, 03:55:57 PM »
They have to get all police departments in line.   There are a few guys out there like Arpaio still out there.   

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Re: Just how stupid do thes e people think we are?
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2015, 06:49:16 AM »
They have to get all police departments in line.   There are a few guys out there like Arpaio still out there.

And that guy in Milwaukee, and other places.

What do they all have in common?

They are Sheriff's, not city police or troopers.  Elected vs appointed by asshats.  About the only elections left that are functioning...relatively speaking.  I predict they will become even more politicized by progs and 100% corrupted before too long.
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