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Should the police be under federal control instead of local control?

Should the police be under federal control instead of local control

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jamesrage

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Should the police be under federal control instead of local control? If you remember correctly President Obama wanted a national civilian force as powerful as the military and recently the race parasite Al Sharpton said we should nationalize our police.

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I say no.Control should always be local and seeing how the federal government refuses to adequately secure our borders why on earth would anyone trust the federal government to handle policing?
 
jamesrage said:
Should the police be under federal control instead of local control? If you remember correctly President Obama wanted a national civilian force as powerful as the military and recently the race parasite Al Sharpton said we should nationalize our police.

Yes
No
other









I say no.Control should always be local and seeing how the federal government refuses to adequately secure our borders why on earth would anyone trust the federal government to handle policing?
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You would be correct. The last thing we need is "government police".
 
Not only no, but hell no.
 
Absolutely not, the last thing we need is more federalization of power. Handing over the police to the US government would mark the end of civil liberties, and the conclusion of our movement to a Police State.
 
This is one of those issues I firmly disagree with Pres. Obama over. What would be the point of having a civilian national police force when we already have a very strong and agile military?

If the idea was to strengthen our domestic police presence so that local forces could be as well trained and equipped as our military in the event of a domestic invasion, then I could see it. I could even see his reasoning in recruiting more FBI/CIA/DEA agents to work abroad. That would even makes some sense (to me). But if his thinking was to be able to pull "troops" from local police forces and integrate them into ground forces abroad, then what's the point of having the National Guard?

Bottom Line: We don't need a police state and doing as then candidate Obama suggested very possibly could have someday led to that.
 
jamesrage said:
Should the police be under federal control instead of local control? If you remember correctly President Obama wanted a national civilian force as powerful as the military and recently the race parasite Al Sharpton said we should nationalize our police.

Yes
No
other

I say no.Control should always be local and seeing how the federal government refuses to adequately secure our borders why on earth would anyone trust the federal government to handle policing?
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While you and I strongly disagree on almost everything - basically because I'm right and you're wrong, of course :mrgreen: - I don't want to see federal control of all police forces nationwide. While there would be some benefits of doing so - most especially, a decrease in corruption - I think the loss of local determination would present a long-term problem that would outweigh the benefits of federal control of police.
 
Absolutely not. God help us. :lamo

Just look at the job our government has made of our border security or the war on drugs. Look at the job they have done balancing the budget. :3oops:

If anything it is our federal government that needs policing.
 
Yes.

Local police have no oversight. They're completely corrupt and petty.
 
No, they should be under the control of their local community. If there isn't an effective system in place to do that in a particular community then implement a system.
 
I'm the guy who voted "other".

I did so because I feel that federal control of all law enforcement would be extremely dangerous, and while it might solve some problems it would create others that would potential be worse than those federalization was intended to solve.

But I suspect that is the direction that we're going to go because the alternative is that local (and to a lesser degree state) police forces will have to police themselves and that is clearly something they are completely unwilling or unable to do.
 
Hell no, it would another bureaucracy and cabinet position to manage.
 
Jesus ****ing titty Christ no.
 
Ryan5 said:
Yes.

Local police have no oversight. They're completely corrupt and petty.
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Right, because there's no chance of that with the fed involved. :roll:
 
 
Perhaps the oversight of police and investigation of police misconduct should be federal, in order to give distance between those whom police work with every day and those who must ensure they follow the rules.
 
Absolutely not, though we should have proper check and balance to ensure proper policing.
 
Paschendale said:
Perhaps the oversight of police and investigation of police misconduct should be federal, in order to give distance between those whom police work with every day and those who must ensure they follow the rules.
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Ikari said:
Absolutely not, though we should have proper check and balance to ensure proper policing.
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Isn't that what the DOJ does already?
 
No, but it's worth noting that Obama was referring to the size of the peace corps in the video presented, not a national police force, gestapo or anything of the sort.
 
Ryan5 said:
Yes.

Local police have no oversight. They're completely corrupt and petty.
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Probably some are this way ...
I voted "other" .
I like the concept of only having "state" police, but NO borough , village, town, regional, township, city , and county police , Just ONE group .. state ..
Having one federal force , IMO, not a good idea ...
 
No. Absolutely not. As general rule the closer a governmental agency is to the voter the more control voters can exert on it. Voters have much more control potentially over the village PD than they do over the FBI.
 
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