[ConservativeInPA]

No matter what becomes of this bill, it will be wasteful spending filled with a bunch of federal compliance crap, useless woke programs and worse. Local law enforcement should be funded locally and meet the needs of the community. Federal spending on local law enforcement causes communities to become more dependent on the federal government. It’s like free money to them and they will waste it. No one demands value out of what seem like free money.

This is a perfect example of how money doesn’t solve a problem. Republicans should be saying that they will eliminate federal mandates on local law enforcement and the federal bureaucracy that goes along with it. In turn, money saved at the federal level can be returned to communities to do what they wish.

Personally, I don’t give a damn about crime in big cities. I give a damn about my tax dollars being spent on my local police AND big city police. They can eff’n pay for their own damn problems. I certainly didn’t cause them.

[Texas resident]

Federal spending on local law enforcement takes away local control. So the feds can determine who gets hired and what their priorities are. It is a nationalization of local police.