Since Obama-Holder, the political rhetoric and coordinated media attack on local police has been in overdrive. These are police that are out of the control of Fed.gov, are selected and administered locally.
You will notice at the same time that the dozens of Federal “law enforcement” never face scrutiny, are quite protected, are never doxxed, nor have leaks made on them. There are never calls for defunding or oversight.
See a pattern here?
now hiring. only SJWs need apply.
At the same time, police oversight is going from localities to the federal government.
How hard is this to figure out?
This author is not Bagpipe Bob Barr, the Quisling.
We had a new police chief here that came in from a big city department that has undergone that process. There was a case here involving something racial that he tried to pursue and he didn’t get anywhere. As soon as he had to play by local instead of federal rules he was out of there, left in a huff. We have a new police chief now, both men are black, but this new chief has been around for years, he wasn’t brought in from somewhere else. Things calmed down again with the change in chiefs. What I learned from this leadership switch is that this tactic isn’t about race, it’s about federalizing. The new chief is all about what is going on street level locally and the other guy was most notable for his embrace of the political. The new chief probably knows every at risk teen in the city and knows their names and I’d hazard a guess that this wasn’t true of the other guy. I do think there is something up at DOJ with this, someone is building a power base for their own agenda and they are using local communities tax money to fund it.
Consent decrees are guilty pleas.
It isn’t as simple as that, but it is a way to enforce rules (and give exemptions) out side of the legal framework.
My first exposure was in environmental regulations.
Dear Federal Government:
We are sorry to inform you that your civil rights commissar assigned to our district is dead. While touring the backwaters of our district, the jeep hit a bump and he was ejected from the vehicle and into a lake. A bull alligator took him under the water pretty quick and twisted him into an edible pretzel. We managed to save his hat, and we return it to you with all the respect we can muster.
Please send us another certified inspector, as we miss his jolly demeanor and quiet humor.
Sincerely.
The sheriff and his 2,000-man deputized and armed citizens.
“Federal ‘Consent Decrees’ Make Policing Problems Worse Not Better”
Well, duh. Who could imagine that it would be otherwise?