Posted on 08/25/2014 10:21:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Elijah Cummings, along with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, sent a letter Monday to President Barack Obama, urging the administration to pursue changes to local law enforcement structure to “prevent more Fergusons,” including a federal czar to oversee local law enforcement.
“The administration must quickly establish a national commission to review existing police policies and practices,” the letter reads. “And identify the best policies and practices that can prevent more Fergusons and vastly improve policing in communities across the nation.”
In addition to the commission, the letter calls for the appointment of a federal czar within the Justice Department to monitor and oversee local police departments that receive federal funding.
Besides Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, Democratic Reps. Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Steven Horsford of Nevada, John Lewis of Georgia, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin and Barbara Lee of Texas signed the letter, as well as AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and actress Cynthia Nixon.
The letter comes the same day as the funeral for 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot and killed Aug. 9 by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. The letter says Brown “is only the latest in a long list of black men and boys who have died under eerily similar circumstances.”
“The pattern is too obvious to be a coincidence and too frequent to be a mistake,” the letter reads, while acknowledging that many facts regarding Brown’s death are still unclear.
The letter notes both “systemic racial bias” and the militarization of police departments as “dangerous trends” and outlines a number of actions for the administration to address, including racial bias training for every local police department under guidelines set by the Justice Department. It also calls upon the Justice Department to set and implement national standards for investigations when police shoot unarmed victims as well as to set, implement and monitor diversity hiring and retention. The letter urges the administration to suspend programs that provide local police with military equipment while authorizing support under existing grants to foster more engagement between local law enforcement officers and the communities they serve.
This makes perfect sense,
Have Obama/Holder take over all of the local government police.
This could only work with Obama in charge.
If it was a R we would have to be suspicious.
BTW : Cummings is my House Dem thanks to liberal invasion and redistricting here in my Maryland county.
This is chilling. Most Americans have no clue that our system of local police and sheriffs’ departments are what protect us from federal tyranny. It is the reason the sheriffs in CO told the Feds they would not enforce the new gun laws and the Feds backed down.
In police training, the local DA spoke to the new recruits and asked them what they would do if the president told them to arrest someone. The correct answer was “no”. Police and sheriffs are answerable to local authorities. If people were more aware of how important this system is, they would pay more attention to their local elections.
In most other countries, the police answer to the federal commissioner of police (or whatever his title happens to be), and don’t give a rat’s whisker what the locals think.
Obama and the socialists know that they can’t trust local police to do their bidding, and that is why they want federal police. It is very dangerous to our freedom.
No 300 pound man is EVER "unarmed."
??? LOL
I’m about 345, do the math.
Maybe she’s related to Governor Nixon?
...I have a feeling this plan has been sitting in a file cabinet waiting for just such an occasion.
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Sounds like a Jarret, Holder and Obama plan to Nationalize all US LEOs. Just another thing on their bucket list.
This would normally be considered a violation of the 10th Amendment.
But in Obamaland opposing such a measure is racist....
All police use a standard federal use of force policy.
It’s and absurd idea that cannot ever be enacted. If such and asinine idea were to take hold, it would signify that the Federal Government is the Alpha and Omega.
Such a thing coming to pass would be without exception a line that if crossed would necessitate Revolution.
Revolution, or as we say here "Civil War II" which is also sometimes referred to as "American Revolution II", and in any case, qualifies for a PING!
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Some well considered thoughts about one possible future scenario from Travis:
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doing so of course would be unconstitutional and a total disaster.
Which means Obama will probably get right on it.
see above.
So they literally want a police state?
Morons all of them...
Did they coordinate with the Congressional white caucus first? Oops, sorry, that would be racist. We can't have any racism now, can we? Imagine this, some cop in Fairbanks, will have to call some bureaucrat in Washington, just to make a traffic stop. Idjits.
what could go wrong if a nationalized police force shot “an unarmed black teenager who was assaulting the national policeman”? Plenty. And that’s why this will never happen. They wouldn’t have any “Wilsons” to blame it on.
Why am not surprised to see Trumka name attached to this idea....
What the hell is Cynthia Nixon doing in this group?
A federal police czar would prevent future incidents like Ferguson...?
I’d like to ask these blockheads how would that work in real life and not in their fantasy world....
Not a chance, CBC.
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