Let’s do it to the regulatory agencies, too.
Pretty sure the Department of Education doesn’t need a SWAT team.
Of course, I’m also pretty sure we don’t even need a Department of Education.
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Let’s do it to the regulatory agencies, too.
Pretty sure the Department of Education doesn’t need a SWAT team.
Of course, I’m also pretty sure we don’t even need a Department of Education.
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Getting rid of the Department of Education and keeping their SWAT team would actually be an improvement over getting rid of the SWAT team but keeping the department.
I believe that in the great majority of instances when a federal agency needs to reach out and touch an individual, that agency should go through the appropriate process of working with the local judiciary and the police or sheriff department and get them to accompany the federal rep to the business or individual. This would eliminate the need to militarize the federal agency, plus it enables the local elected folks to act as a buffer for federal nonsense.
For example, during the Bundy standoff, I think there would have been a totally different outcome that would never have attracted the media if the BLM had been required to work through the local judiciary and law enforcement to serve papers.
An excellent suggestion. Failing that, federal agencies that need to arrest someone should give the job to the FBI, an actual law enforcement agency with decades of experience.
Not FBI, U.S. Marshal Service. That’s what it’s for.
In fact I think the FBI should be reverted to investigation only, and when its findings identify a suspect, the warrant then goes to the Marshals.
Experience doing what? Keeping secret files on Frank Sinatra, burning women and children in Waco, sending a SWAT team to arrest paleontologist accused of collecting fossils on the wrong land, ignoring warnings about foreign students learning to fly (but not land) airliners?
IIRC, it was the ATF that burned those women and children at Waco. The FBI certainly isn’t without sin, especially in the J. Edgar Hoover days. Still, if it were up to me, I’d trust them with law enforcement matters over the Department of Education, EPA, Department of the Interior, etc.
Waco was a joint operation of the BATF and the FBI, which led the final assault.
As Stan Evans said in a different context, sometimes the Stupid Party and the Evil Party work together.
One has to ask why the FBI has an $8 billion budget and 35,000 employees.
There are only a few crimes which ought to be Federal offenses, if we followed the intent of the Founding Fathers. The vast majority fall under the purview of the states.
By the way, do you know that the FBI has its own police force? You can see them driving around DC in cars marked “FBI Police.”
I have no idea what the “FBI Police” do. I suspect they’re primarily security guards. I’m pretty sure they’re not there to arrest FBI agents who break the law.
A police force that’s so big its needs another police force to protect it? You can’t make this stuff up.