I NEED MORE POWER - How Obama is taking over your local police force

The feds are running more police departments, and the UN thinks it's great.

The Obama administration is taking over police departments across the nation. The hijack allows them to dictate how police will operate. This can have the effect of dulling police effectiveness. It is also a federal intrusion into local affairs.

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - Local police should answer to local control. This is how police departments are supposed to work. Police answer to mayors and city councils, and the people of those cities elect their mayors. This holds police accountable to the people.

Now, President Obama is taking over police departments and so will Hillary Clinton.

Who should manage your police department? You and your neighbors, or Hillary Clinton?

The move to take over police departments comes through the Justice Department. When a person makes a civil rights complaint against police, the attorney general has the authority to prosecute. If a city does not resist the prosecution, which it won't if the offense is egregious, a judge can order the police to follow a host of federal guidelines instead of local policies.

These federal guidelines impact a number of tactics. Included are how searches are conducted, use of force restrictions, mandatory body cameras, and so on. These restrictions can last for years and the government may make regular compliance checks.

Police departments that are already part of this scheme include, Newark, Miami, Los Angeles, Ferguson, and Chicago. Several other smaller cities are also included.

At the heart of this issue is who should manage law enforcement. Local government or federal? Another question is who is overseeing this federal power grab?

Most members of Congress are ignorant of the law, according to the political website Polizette, which contacted several lawmakers.

Because of this widespread ignorance, both of lawmakers and people, the Obama administration can effectively run police forces, setting their policies and procedures.

Furthermore, the United Nations thinks this is a fantastic development. According to Maina Kai, UN Rapporteur, from the Human Rights Council, encouraged the takeover as a way to end "discrimination" in police departments.

Discrimination is an issue, but a federal government can discriminate too. There's little good justification for the mass transfer of power to the Obama administration. Unfortunately, nobody is paying attention, so it will continue unabated in the Clinton administration.

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