That’s true, and as well...it strikes me that there’s a sort of silliness in all this. When you consider the thousands of Police jurisdictions across the US and the hundreds of thousands of LEO’s employed by them, the idea of the Feds taking over and staffing those organizations, its obvious they don’t even begin to have the numbers necessary to do that.
And would this extend to the State Police/Troopers?
And would it extend to local Sheriff’s Departments?
And would it extend to all the Constabularies?
When considering a statement by Big Al, always remember..... he’s black
While official, "on-the-books", federal employees may not staff and/or directly run the day-to-day operations of state and local police agencies, the threat of the loss of "federal money" will cause many/most of them to allow the federal government to effectively control the who, what when, where and why of the activities in which these agencies engage and the "programs" which they foist on the citizenry.
The only way it can be stopped in its tracks would be for individual states to cease forwarding their citizens' federal tax with-holdings to the feds. If the feds don't have the taxpayers' money in the first place, they cannot extort the states in to surrendering their sovereignty by threatening to not return it to the states.
That is why "fighting state's rights" is such an important part of the plan.
Once it gets started, all of the above eventually.