[WAPO] BLUF: Centralizing law enforcement also will improve oversight and reduce corruption. In the current system, corrupt cops and police chiefs often enjoy long tenures, sheltered in autonomous local departments. A statewide system offers more accountability. While concerns about misconduct or corruption are being investigated, accused officers -- or entire divisions -- could be moved to another part of the state to ease tensions in the local community and reduce opportunities for biased treatment in their home jurisdictions. [Pirate's Cove:] "It's interesting how virtually every policy from Progressives means more and more power in the hands of more centralized government, eh? They love the idea of moving everything away from the local level, where government can be more responsive, be held accountable to a better degree, where people know their government officials. This is a Progressive's wet dream. Except when it negatively impacts themselves, then they are upset.
And, of course, in Progressive World, higher level officials never ever can be unprofessional and inefficient."
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Perhaps a new paradigm. Blacks wont become cops but they do sign on to be security guards. Perhaps privitize and have private security patrols instead.
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The opposite is true. If there wasn't a federal involvement - in the form of Obama and Holder. Or the racist twins (Jackson, Sharpton) and their bus loads of 'Community Organizers' aka Thugs. Or the lawyer flying in from elsewhere to stir the pot (and the parents being stupid enough to think he represents them) the riots wouldn't have happened.
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And when the centralized police chief decides to ignore the law we get illegal immigration, IRS and EPA abuse. Yeah let us implement that at every level. Layers of law enforcement is suppose to keep a watch on the different levels.
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You don't use locals to keep locals in charge...because they are locals. Straight tyrant agit-prop.
What is this, is a suggestion for the college tuition program sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and Health Human Services.
Citizen! Put in your 2 years of public service Today! Six month rotations run counter-clockwise to the college bowl series - make new friends, spread your team colors, get fit!
Citizen Service means Citizen Tax Breaks, Free Tuition, and Bonus Tacos on Tuesday! Forward!
#8
If anything, the Police force should be More localized.
In Hong Kong, you may elect members of Parliament and your Prime Minister, but all state and local positions will be filled by appointees from Beijing.
Sadly, I sense a deal - "DOJ can't prove anything but we can still make your life a living hell. Get out of town and we won't push it."
Mike
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I was curious about the author both having a PhD and being a 17 year vet with the LAPD. Couldn't find the PhD subject, but he is/was teaching homeland security at Colorado Tech. He is also noted as the author of a piece stating (tl;dr) "don't f**k with cops, we'll kick your ass". (yeah, I'm paraphrasing)
Perhaps instead of creating a StadtPolitzei, we could instead create de jure bantustans instead of the de facto ones we have now. It all depends on the actual problem we are trying to solve.
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SD County Sheriffs Kolendar (for about 110 yrs) and Ex-FBI guy Gore have continued the fight against "shall carry". Of course, campaign donors and "honorary sheriffs" had no qualms. F*CK them. THIS is why we need national constitutional protections
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It is already in place. DHS has a police force. They come to the community and augment when necessary, such as in Ferguson. Next step is for them to declare the ferg police to be so corrupt they need to start over. DHS steps in, fed funding to the state stops, then DHS never leaves.
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I am sure they will just as non-partial, fair and honest as the IRS. Right.
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The system we have now starts with local police. In Maryland we have city/township police, county police, and state police. Pennsylvania has township/borough police and state police. Both state police organizations are very straight, very no-nonsense. County police vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but recruitment is local for the most part, meaning you get local knowledge.
The writer has seemingly never had a look at countries with centralized police operations.
Moving "entire divisions" from jurisdiction to jurisdiction on the assumption they're interchangeable parts is a recipe for disaster.
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The biggest problem with an Obama national police force is that most Americans cannot speak Spanish.
[South African.com] At a summit in Istanbul, Erdoğan was quoted as saying that equality between men and women "is against nature." The same man who told a journalist that "women should know their place" not long ago, sparked outrage with the speech made at a convention organised by women's groups aimed at eradicating gender discrimination in Turkey.
"You cannot make women and men equal; this is against nature," el presidente told the crowd of women, which included his own daughter. "You cannot subject a pregnant woman to the same working conditions as a man. You cannot make a mother who has to breastfeed her child equal to a man. You cannot make women do everything men do like the communist regimes did…this is against her delicate nature."
As if that wasn't enough, he had to justify this tomfoolery by saying that Islam dictated motherhood to be the prime role of women, reciting a hadith saying that "heaven lies at your mother's feet". Our staunch NATO ally reciting a hadith against wymyn.
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Paul D: yes, it is his dream. He's between the opposite poles of Khomenini-inspired Shi'a radicalism and al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood inspired Sunni fundamentalism. He's a "third way" Muslim, as it were. He's getting there.
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[DAWN] THE liquidation of JUI-F's Sindh secretary-general Khalid Mahmood Soomro in the early hours of Saturday once again raises questions about the reach and deadly capabilities of Lions of Islam in Pakistain. The politician from Larkana was bumped off by person or persons unknown outside a Sukkur mosque after morning prayers. He was in the city to attend a gathering the night before his murder.
An active leader and former senator, Soomro was a known name in Sindh's politics, especially in the province's northern part. His tragic killing raises a pertinent question: if leaders of parties known to have a soft corner for the ideology of Islamist Lions of Islam -- though not for their murderous tactics -- can be attacked so brazenly, what must be the level of threat faced by social and political forces that openly condemn militancy? Though at the time of writing no claims of responsibility had emerged, while the police also did not name suspects, the JUI-F has been attacked on numerous occasions in the past by myrmidons. In fact, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the party chief, has himself survived several attacks, including suicide kabooms; the last such incident occurred in October at a rally in Quetta. Numerous JUI-F leaders and workers have been slain in Fata and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , while Soomro was also targeted in the past.
The primary blame must of course go to the state for failing to clamp down on the perpetrators of such violence across Pakistain. While Lions of Islam might be on the run, battlefield successes have not really been followed up with active intelligence-gathering in cities to ensure Lions of Islam have not infiltrated cities and towns. A thorough probe is required to establish the facts behind the party official's murder and punish the culprits. Having said that, the JUI-F must also take a firm, unambiguous stand against militancy. Having lost so many activists to acts of terrorism, the party cannot afford to sit on the fence and go light on Lions of Islam of all shades, regardless of any ideological affinities it may share with some groups.
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[Ynet] For decades, the Paleostinians have nurtured the ethos of the Nakba while Israel chose to downplay the persecutions and expulsion of the Arab Jews. It is time to set the record straight.
"If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea." This statement was made by Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Moslem Brüderbund, about a month and a half after the declaration of the independence, and with the Egyptian Army already having invaded the territory allotted to the Jewish state.
The Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, explained in his memoirs: "Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Paleostine and the Arab world."
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[Guardian] Todd Stern claims the world will have to forgo developing reserves of oil, coal and gas in order to solve global warming.
If that means that a lot of humans have to die, tough luck. Mr. Stern will find a way to stay warm, fed and in charge...
The world's fossil fuels will "obviously" have to stay in the ground in order to solve global warming, President Champ's climate change envoy said on Monday.
In the clearest sign to date the administration sees no long-range future for fossil fuel, the state department climate change envoy, Todd Stern, said the world would have no choice but to forgo developing reserves of oil, coal and gas.
The assertion, a week ahead of United Nations climate negotiations in Lima, will be seen as a further indication of Obama's commitment to climate action, following an historic US-Chinese deal to curb emissions earlier this month.
A global deal to fight climate change would necessarily require countries to abandon known reserves of oil, coal and gas, Stern told a forum at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
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Those who espouse such views should show their commitment to the cause by turning off their electricity for - let's not be too demanding - 12 hours a day, between 6 am and 6 pm. And stop flying private jets to climate conferences!
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New Social(ist) Puritanism. Given that their models have collapse in measurement of direct observation, it's a faith based religion of the tribe that worships itself.
#6
Stay in the ground in the west, so we send our wealth to Saudi and Russian rent-seekers.
The best outcome is that it's likely to be mostly squandered.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WAPO] 
Officer Wilson has resigned, reportedly with no pension or severance pay. I sense a potential secret benefactor. 
[South African.com] At a summit in Istanbul, Erdoğan was quoted as saying that equality between men and women "is against nature." The same man who told a journalist that "women should know their place" not long ago, sparked outrage with the speech made at a convention organised by women's groups aimed at eradicating gender discrimination in Turkey.
[Guardian] Todd Stern claims the world will have to forgo developing reserves of oil, coal and gas in order to solve global warming. 
