Obama’s Federal Powergrab On Local Law Enforcement Is UN-Approved

Times of r are times of the bully:

“The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has provided oversight and recommendations for improvement of police services in a number of cities with consent decrees. This is one of the most effective ways to reduce discrimination in law enforcement and it needs to be beefed up and increased to cover as many of the 18,000-plus local law enforcement jurisdictions.”

That was… Maina Kai on July 27, a representative of the U.N. Human Rights Council, who on the tail-end of touring the U.S., endorsed a little-known and yet highly controversial practice by the Justice Department to effect a federal takeover of local police and corrections departments…

Here’s how it works: the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice files a lawsuit in federal court against a city, county, or state, alleging constitutional and civil rights violations by the police or at a corrections facility. It is done under 42 U.S.C. § 14141, a section of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, granting the attorney general the power to prosecute law enforcement misconduct. The municipality then simply agrees to the judicial finding — without contest — and the result is a wide-reaching federal court order that imposes onerous regulations on local police…

As Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning noted in a statement calling attention to the U.N.’s interest in the DOJ program and urging Congress to act, “The fact that the U.N. Human Rights Council — which includes some of the worst abusers of human rights in the world that hate the U.S. — is cheering for this DOJ national takeover of the police should tell members everything they need to know. It’s time to support local police, not render them impotent via federal restrictions against maintaining law and order. No less than the very existence of local government is at stake.”

Excellent article at the link.

This has been done for all different reasons, from eliminating policing procedures designed to protect officers and the citizenry, to eliminating the preferential hiring of higher IQ’s by instituting personality tests in Civil Service exams instead of IQ based tests. It has even been done to local governments to force wealthy areas to install low-income housing in their area to ameliorate “racial disparities.”

This only works because resources are free enough that the Federal Government can fund limitless litigation on local entities, and the localities see acquiescence as easier than opposition because of the motivation-degrading effects of r. Take away the r-selection and either fedguv would lack the money to fight, the locality would challenge them to enforce their demands, or some combination of both of those would prevent such a federal takeover.

Hopefully Trump will fix this but if Hillary wins, what we have seen to date will just be the beginning.