[SeekAndFind]

Here's my question to start the ball rolling : Why do we need a FEDERAL Bureau of Investigation? Can't these investigations be done by each state having their own respective Bureau of Investigations?

We have NYPD, LAPD, etc.

Why can't we have NYBI or CBI ( California ) or FLBI ( Florida) or PBI ( Pennsylvania ) or TBI ( Texas ), and so on?

[C210N]

Roll in with the FIB, Clowns In America.

[Mr. K]

Disband and absorb their functions into the Sherriff’s departments.

NO upper management or anyone proven to be partisan.

[PGR88]

The simplest first-step proposal, and most easily implemented - indeed, it could be done with a simple executive order - would be to disarm the FBI

No holding, purchasing or training on weapons of any kind for the FBI.

If the tough-guys at America’s KGB wants to conduct midnight raids with CNN in tow - or kill dozens of women and children in remote religious compounds - let them first convince the state sheriffs and local cops to accompany them and put their lives on the line.

[Tench_Coxe]

""The FBI’s chilling record of politicized abuses and the executive branch’s continuing misuse of federal intelligence authorities to target the exercise of free speech and other constitutional rights of Americans gives Congress clear and compelling grounds for enacting forceful reforms, starting with the FBI,""

Democrats and RINOs will take "reform" to mean outfitting their agents in uniforms designed by Hugo Boss.....

[Tench_Coxe]

Seriously, the problem is how to manage interstate crimes, which I understand was the original impetus for its creation.

And no, that does not mean a federal police force, which imho is where Obama and company would like things to go.

[SpaceBar]

The CIA is worse, just cloaked in secrecy.

[MinorityRepublican]

Dismantle the FBI. Fire all of their employees.

Transfer their functions to Marshals, Treasury, Secret Service, ATF, DEA, Border Patrol.

[Captainpaintball]

No plan is complete without REVENGE.

[Wdempsey]

Rip out the phone lines, turn off the utilities, the FIB is gone.

Next stop:the IRS.

[Fledermaus]

We have a TBI in Tennessee

[Vigilanteman]

Renaming the NKVD as the KGB didn’t solve the problem. The KGB just did what the NKVD used to do.

[qaz123]

The first thing that some needs to do is justify 40,000 positions, 14,000 of which are people with guns. What in the hell do the other 26,000 do?

After that, only prior law enforcement should be allowed for any federal LEO job. A minimum of 5 years on the street, answering calls and dealing with whatever has a way of humbling a person.

No more indoctrinated, easily swayed by the dark side, college kids.

[Wuli]

They could be reduced to only investigatory actions, and then needing to go through state AGs and state police and state courts (WArrants) to get state executive level actions that act on the investigations.

The U.S. Congress could also help, to start with, by removing all federal “crimes” that duplicate “crimes” generally found in all the states’ criminal laws, reducing the staffing needs of the DOJ and any “federal” investigators.

All “drug” and similar “federal” “crimes” should require “interstate” transactions in order for it to be a “federal” crime, leaving 99% of such crimes to the state level, as states choose.

[ifinnegan]

Yes. Given communication and travel abilities now the FBI is obsolete and not needed.

[Pirate Ragnar]

LAPD and NYPD have no authority in other states. Clearly there are crimes that involve the entire nation; terrorism, human trafficing, threats to the currency etc. There is still need for reform, but federal issues need to be addressed where locals cannot.

[mo]

mebbe we no longer need an FBI?

We have 50 states after all.. Fed.gov is becoming more redundant with every passing year at this point..

[Dalberg-Acton]

Scrap the CIA while you’re at it.

[kvanbrunt2]

The easy way is to build Quonset huts in Nome, AK. Transfer everyone. They get a land phone, cot, Desk, pen, paper, and a portable heater. No internet.

[Dr. Sivana]

Why do we need a FEDERAL Bureau of Investigation?

I figured the reputed need came from automobiles. Bonnie and Clyde would go from jurisdiction to jurisdiction in fast cars.

I am not sure who would take the place of investigations in corporate espionage by local actors under the control of foreign actors (I want to limit CIA's involvement locally). For instance, one FBI agent I knew spent most of his time finding Chinese spies in U.S. corporations stealing tech secrets. There might also be use for a federal presence for things like Fentanyl or human trafficking in states that are indifferent to both, but whose consequences are national.

[Pajamajan]

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