UNCLE HILL’S FED TROOPERS COMING?
“Where do we go from here? That’s what many Americans wonder, as they watch race relations spiral downward and cops across the country come under siege. How can we bring the nation together again? How can we make everyone safe?
On Monday, Hillary Clinton laid out her plan to mend the racial divide, asserting that “there is clear evidence that African Americans are disproportionately killed in police incidents compared to any other group.” Speaking to the NAACP in Cincinnati, Hillary said she wants the federal government to ride herd on local law enforcement, to create “clear national guidelines on the use of force, especially lethal force” and set up “independent investigations of fatal encounters.” So much for community policing.
It’s hard to know whether Clinton is still atoning for her husband signing the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act or for having called black youngsters “super-predators.” There is no confusion about what she wanted, however. After her pitch on confronting racial bias in policing, she alerted the NAACP crowd to her recruiters in the hall, looking to hire “paid organizers” to help round up votes.
In a speech in Baltimore last year, Clinton decried the “inequities that persist in our justice system” and proposed beefing up the Justice Department’s unit that monitors civil rights violations. She also advised limiting “the transfer of military equipment to local law enforcement.” She also wants double funding for the DOJ “Collaborative Reform” program and to support legislation to end racial profiling by cops.
That’s her plan – imposing more federal oversight on local law enforcement. More feds probing every violent cop-related encounter, monitoring what kind of weapons they are allowed to carry, whether or not they have followed federal guidelines on use of force or engaged in racial profiling. How do we think cops on the beat will respond to having Big Brother along in the patrol car?”
READ MORE: thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/07/20/Will-Clinton-s-Plan-Handcuff-Cops-Solve-Racial-Divide
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