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2014-11-30 -Land of the Free

We should get rid of local policing. Ferguson shows why the system just doesn't work

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Posted by 2014-11-30 01:40|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 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.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-30 07:43|| 2014-11-30 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Are they gonna name the new state police Gestapo?

Posted by chris 2014-11-30 08:07|| 2014-11-30 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Yay, lets bring in the Stasi to those black areas because black cannot govern and police themselves. Progressive's racism is showing.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-30 08:47|| 2014-11-30 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 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.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-11-30 08:57|| 2014-11-30 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 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.

Posted by Airandee 2014-11-30 09:15|| 2014-11-30 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 The Reichstag Fire. Take an event, feed the hysteria (with your agents), then declare the need for more Power(tm).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-30 09:32|| 2014-11-30 09:32|| Front Page Top

#7 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!

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-30 11:32|| 2014-11-30 11:32|| Front Page Top

#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.

Machine over man.

Posted by newc 2014-11-30 12:21|| 2014-11-30 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 The administration just floated a Trial Balloon via WAPO...

Posted by Blinky Glosing9128 2014-11-30 12:21|| 2014-11-30 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10

Hey no problem. I nominate Joe as national police czar.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-30 12:23|| 2014-11-30 12:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Ferguson an excuse for expanding the powers of Homeland Security - "This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility,"

Posted by Blinky Glosing9128 2014-11-30 12:41|| 2014-11-30 12:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Just curious... When Holder visited - did he ever visit Officer Wilson?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-11-30 12:53|| 2014-11-30 12:53|| Front Page Top

#13 ^^If he had, he would've spilled the location so the lynch mob could do "Justice"

Posted by Frank G 2014-11-30 13:26|| 2014-11-30 13:26|| Front Page Top

#14

Officer Wilson has resigned, reportedly with no pension or severance pay. I sense a potential secret benefactor.

Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller) hands check to Betty Perkins (Inger Stevens) in a 1956 episode of the Millionaire.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-30 13:38|| 2014-11-30 13:38|| Front Page Top

#15 The USSR was the exemplar of centralised accountability and lack of corruption lol.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-11-30 15:41|| 2014-11-30 15:41|| Front Page Top

#16 I sense a potential secret benefactor.

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

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-11-30 15:42|| 2014-11-30 15:42|| Front Page Top

#17 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.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-30 16:02|| 2014-11-30 16:02|| Front Page Top

#18 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

Posted by Frank G 2014-11-30 18:45|| 2014-11-30 18:45|| Front Page Top

#19 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.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-11-30 20:37|| 2014-11-30 20:37|| Front Page Top

#20 I am sure they will just as non-partial, fair and honest as the IRS. Right.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-30 21:01|| 2014-11-30 21:01|| Front Page Top

#21 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.

Posted by Fred 2014-11-30 21:30|| 2014-11-30 21:30|| Front Page Top

#22 The biggest problem with an Obama national police force is that most Americans cannot speak Spanish.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-30 22:30|| 2014-11-30 22:30|| Front Page Top

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