Posted on 08/17/2022 7:07:12 AM PDT by KeyLargo
There is no real over sight.
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That is the bottom line. Well that and congressional fear of the agencies. It all adds up to out-of-control agencies and roadblocks to accountability.
How would the new agency be prevented from arriving at exactly the same state the FBI is in now?
I repeat my idea.
All FBI duties should be turned over to the sheriffs. The sheriff is responsive to the citizens. If I want to talk to the sheriff, he is 20 miles from here and available to the public.
The tricky part would the funding. Small departments with a huge territory, big departments in densely populated small counties....in other words a small department might need more money just because of the large area.
Where does the money come from? It would be best to prevent the money from being distributed by Washington, DC
You missed my point, and San Francisco has far deeper problems than their DA’s office.
Wow, it is amazing to read this from a person who describes himself as “libertarian-liberal” and a “Boston-based criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer.” Even more surprising is that this was published in the Boston Globe and picked up by MSN.
EVERY function of the FBI should be turned back over to individual states. It has shown itself to be nothing but criminal, IMO.
You said: Prosecutors represent the government against the citizen, and we’ve seen how that’s worked out lately.
That seems to be the case with federal prosecutors these days, who are Democrats clearing the electoral field for their fellow Democrats.
Defense Attorneys (not prosecutors) have been taking over the District Attorney offices in the cities, and that has led to an increase in crime in those cities.
-PJ
We shall not have a secret police force for the executive branch any more.
The biggest example I can think of is federal drug laws. All Federal drug laws should be eliminated unless the crime involves crossing a border (state or national).
Once you reduce the responsibilities, you reduce the head count. Then you can transfer the responsibilities to other agencies
Rich Ulmen
Former 13 Yrs as Agent Partially as a Deputy Marshal1y
The US Marshal and his deputies have more authority than any other federal law enforcement officers. U.S. Marshals can enforce all federal law and all state laws. However, the DOJ and 18USC have assigned primary investigative authority for many crimes to the FBI. Title 21USC is mostly enforced by the DEA. But FBI and DEA task forces ask to swear in their local police members as Deputy US Marshals for the above reasons. A good rule of thumb is the FBI is an investigative agency (a very political one lately) and the US Marshals are an enforcement agency. The US Marshals also investigate child trafficking and child molester cases and escape from federal custody and assaults of federal officers and related probation parole and other crimes. Additionally, most areas have a US Marshals led violent crime and drug trafficker fugitive task force.
The FBI should be scrapped and replaced with nothing.
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How about just have each state have sub-section of their state police force responsible to investigate federal crimes. They would be assigned to work with the FED DOJ states attorney. The drug trafficking crime units are made up of local, county, state, and federal LEO’s. Why does this need to be any different to give this power to the states?
Just like all the states have some version of a federal agency and basically duplicating federal regulations with their state regulations.
We should pass a constitutional amendment that gave the states this power.
The US Marshall Service is also assigned to protect federal judges and courthouses, and yet very few people were arrested for attacking federal court houses during the BL riots.
Locate the new FBI headquarters in Barrow Alaska.
Lovely summers.
And he is correct
FBI has been a hot mess for scores of years. Openly politicized now but has been used politically from the very beginning
Something less than 20 whistleblowers out of thousands. These folks are probably close to retirement and have secured their nest-egg. The rest of those so called ‘good agents’ are either fanatics, true-believers or are just everyday Joes and Janes trying to get along by going along.
If the basic tenet of FBI investigating is ‘gotcha’ tactics rather than follow the evidence police work then that department is ripe for dissolution.
I don't want to augment the FBI, I want to eliminate and replace it.
-PJ
oh gosh then we shouldn’t do that...
Then they can go work for the US Marshals or other agency.
The FBI has to be disbanded.
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