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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Agreed. Policing is a state or local responsibility. Rules, regulations, organization, even penalties for poor performance or malfeasance, are for local elected officials to create and administer. The federal government can and should provide assistance with either materials or funding. But the federal government should not be in the business of creating laws which define how local police departments are managed.
So in the end, guess what, it will require everyone to make demands on their local elected officials responsible for policing.
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I have to vehemently disagree with your contention that the federal government "can and should provide assistance with either materials or funding". Firstly, this is EXACTLY what has been going on for several decades, already, and the reason the police look like storm troopers descending upon the "enemy". Secondly, police, both in theory and in law, are and should remain -
LOCAL. ALL things "government" should be handled at the level which is closest to the people as is feasible. This concept keeps responsibility and authority with the people. With federal funds comes federal CONTROL and it is another steep slope to tyranny. The feds have been "militarizing" local police forces for decades … to what end?
The Militarization Of Local Police Has Been Decades In The Making
“Even if you eliminated the hardware…at this point, ‘military’ is the culture of policing.”
By Molly Redden
The Militarization Of Local Police Has Been Decades In The Making | HuffPost
How America's Police Became an Army: The 1033 Program
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