The Bigger Shadow Behind the Racial Discord

Between Law Enforcement and Community

Nicholas Kallis

Before you read this, remember that I am a

human being.
Yes, I am a man with a worldview, but I am also
man with eyes and with ears. I am a man who
cares about his country and its people, the people
whom I disagree and agree with alike. And I am a
man who seeks understanding and truth, and once
I come to an understanding of what I see and hear,
then I am obliged to speak it. Read this through the
eyes of a man searching for understanding and
truth.
As Americans living in the 21 st century,
currently the year 2016, one hundred and fifty
years after the Civil War ended, and slavery having
ceased, we are all tired of racism and
marginalization. Especially, the African-American
community. Yet where corrupt men live, evil
persists, and racism is always existent. We have to
fight it with justice, and love, but we do get tired of
it. We yearn for the day that hate will end. And
recently racism, namely racism within the justice
system is brought to attention while watching the
horrific videos of the Baton Rouge incident and in
addition, the St. Paul incident. We do not know if

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the police in the videos were acting on racist intent
or just seemingly over-stepping on what they
should have been doing, but as humans we react.
The reactions of many, including the outspoken
Black Lives Matter group have reacted in protests,
some peaceful and some violent. This, of course is
not the first time in recent memory that racial
protests have occurred, joining others like the 1968
protests and riots after MLK was assassinated. And
most recently the Ferguson riots in 2014 and
Baltimore lootings and protests in 2015. But this
was different then Baltimore or Ferguson. The
videos were extremely more graphic, there was
dozens of protests across the country, hundreds of
arrests were made, including the arrest of
prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay
McKesson. And more hatred was poured out, as
Micah Johnson, an Army Veteran and a Black Power
activist shot twelve police officers, leaving five
dead at a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally in
Dallas. It was a bloody, and disturbing week as we
got a glimpse at not only the hurt and hatred of
Americans but also the division between
Americans. People quickly jumped to their sides in
defense of Black Lives Matter and their synopsis of
police brutality or in defense of Police and
avocation for the Blue Lives Matter hashtag. Yet,
many Americans including myself, stood in the

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middle not finding any clear ground. We agree
racism is bad, but hate is not the answer. How can
we address it? Are there laws within the justice
system that need to be changed? How should we
approach the issues of police brutality? Surely,
most police officers are brutal and racist but serve
this country with valor and honor as we saw in
Dallas. These are the questions swirling around
Americans heads currently. And the simple answer
is that its not that simple. For every decision we
make, reality, the very fabric of time is affected
and changed. One has to look at arguments,
counter-arguments, contextual factors, history,
causes, actors, implications, and motives when
looking at issues. And I want to suggest, before we
bury local law enforcement and react on passion,
we take a step back and look at what this current
situation is serving to do. There seem to be
something bigger than this, a battle of principles
that has been waging since the creation of our
country in respect to size and scope of government
My thesis is this: That the racial discord and
civil unrest following the Baton Rogue and St. Paul
incidents will serve to allocate more, if not all of
the Law Enforcement agency and its operations to
the Federal oversight level. This will simply work to
deepen the divide between the liberal and
conservative views on the scope and power of

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Government. With this said power, the Federal
government could control law enforcement
standards, criminal definitions, laws, and what
defines a law breaker.
One only has to look at the past, including
recent police issues like Ferguson to get a glimpse
at how the federal government will attempt to
handle this situation from here. From there we take
a look at the shifting cultural, and political values in
our country, as well as clear federal growth with
respect to connection with local law enforcement
and breaking away from the Constitution.
In the days of the Roman Republic, during
times of crisis and war they would appoint an
official as a temporal Dictator, one who had
extraordinary executive power over the people for
a set time of six months. After 9/11 the U.S.
government was on edge, and so were the people,
terrified of another attack from within. Now for
decades prior to 9/11, The Federal Government
provided billions of dollars in equipment to state
and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) through
excess equipment transfers, asset forfeiture
programs and federal grants. But since 9/11, it
seems as if Congress and the Executive Power
have taken Romanesque initiative to increase
spending and support for Law Enforcement
programs. This deepened the connection of federal

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support to local law enforcement. From 2009 and
2014 The Federal Government provided nearly $18
billion to programs that provided equipment and
tactical resources to State/local LEAs. Because of
the rapid pace of growth of transference of
equipment and training between the Feds and
LEAs, as of 2014, training for the LEAs was not
institutionalized, specifically with respect to civil
rights and civil liberties protections, or the safe use
of equipment received through the Federal
Government. After Ferguson, the Government
sought to encourage LEAs to adopt practices and
standards that prevent misuse of equipment. And
not only encourage but to provide equipment that
is appropriate to the needs of their communities.
But the connection of the Federal level and
local level is much stronger. In December 2015,
Obama signed an Executive Order ushering in a
Task Force on 21st century policing. In the Task
forces first report, it features 6 categories on how
policing practices can build public trust and
promote effective crime reduction, and it includes
input from members of the community, law
enforcement and civil rights/liberties officers. The
Task force made several suggestions on actions the
executive power could take such as The federal
government should create a Law Enforcement
Diversity Initiative designed to help communities

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diversify law enforcement departments to reflect
the demographics of the community. As well the
funding being influenced by whether the LEAs
make an effort to improve their diversity, and
cultural responsiveness.
Like a child, the local police departments, will
receive reprimand if they dont do what their
father, the Federal Government commands. In May
we saw a similar thing happen with public schools.
The Obama administration sent out a mandate
directing schools to allow transgender students to
use bathrooms and facilities with the gender they
identify as. If the schools choose not to comply,
federal funding could be lost. It seems as if a
similar thing could with the LEAs, if they dont
adopt the federal standards then they could lose
funding, and equipment from the federal level. As
our culture embraces tolerance more and more and
moves further away from freedom of speech, one
must wonder if what police officers can do will be
greatly regulated, and if not complied with maybe
even terminated.
During the riots in Baltimore, Activist and Rev.
Al Sharpton called upon the president to federalize
the police, demanding that the Justice department
Take over policing in this country. The Feds
showed up in Baltimore after the city was on fire,
seemingly rescuing it from its ineffective police

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force. And recently former Presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders said that the Department of Justice
should investigate every case where the Police had
to shoot someone with a gun. The savior-like view
of the federal government to come to rescue of the
minorities is relevant and the connection between
LEAs the Feds has been firmly established.
There is always room for danger, and a
transforming creep into totalitarianism when the
Federal government begins to oversee and allocate
local law enforcement under their standards and
regulatory measure. The grab of more and more
power at the Federal level has been a slow grasp,
but remember that liberty dies in small increments,
law by law, Executive order by order, and mandate
by mandate. And then it all comes to a head. One
can spot when a government is rapidly moving to
totalitarianism when its nations top political
officials prove that they are above the law. Just this
month, the Democratic nominee for President of
the United States, Hillary Clinton was under F.B.I
investigation for her handling of classified
information. James B. Comey, the director of the
F.B.I remarked how Mrs. Clinton was extremely
careless in her handling and information, stating
that it was possible for hostile foreign governments
to have accessed her account, and said that
someone else employed by the State Department

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could have received disciplinary action for taking
the careless steps she took. He then recommended
no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice, the
highest court in the land, said four years ago I
would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were
drafting a constitution in the year 2012. In late
June of this year, 7th Circuit Federal Judge Richard
Posner stated that he sees absolutely no value to
a judge of spending decades, years, months,
weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds studying
the constitution. His reasoning, being that the men
who wrote the constitution could not foresee the
technological and cultural state of the 21st century.
Posner forgets that the Founding Fathers were
not intellectually stupid.
They could foresee
cultural changes, so they designed the constitution
so that its principles, its truths and its values of
Freedom, and liberty, sovereignty, and Government
by the people would always stand the test of time.
The actions of Clinton, remarks by Bader, and
Posner, should warn us of the lawlessness the
government could do with a federalized police
department. In addition to this, reports give sight
to the fact that the Federal Government has begun
to militarize and arm its own agencies.
A report titled The Militarization of America
found that 67 Federal agencies from Fiscal year

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2006 to Fiscal year 2014 bought $1.48 billion in
guns, ammo, and Military-style equipment. The
report states "administrative agencies including
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Small
Business Administration (SBA), Smithsonian
Institution, Social Security Administration, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United
States Mint, Department of Education, Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, and many other
agencies purchased guns, ammo, and military-style
equipment."
Apparently the Social Security Administration
asked for 174,000 of .357 Sig 125 grain bonded
jacket hollow-point. The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) asked for
46,000 rounds as well. One must wonder why do
the Social Security Admin. and the NOAA need
hollow-point
ammo?
According
to
the
Congressional Research Services report on
Federal Tactical Teams in 2015, Non-Military
Federal agencies employed at least 145,000 Law
enforcement officers. Granted many of those
145,000 came from border-patrol or customs
agents, but still tens of thousands did not. In
contrast, The Marnie-corps enlists 180,000 men.
Other reports say that 200,000 non-military federal

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officers are authorized to carry guns and have
arrest powers.
its important to note that imperative to this
reasoning is that chaos would be needed to cause
federal allocation of the Local Law enforcement.
We are seeing that right now in our country with
racial strife. I am not saying and I do not attest that
this is manufactured, I am simply saying that this
racial discord and civil unrest is playing right into
the hands of the Federal governments ambition to
allocate Local Law enforcement and to govern
more completely over the United States of
America, and in doing so, with or without intent,
infringing on the sovereignty of Americans.
In the past five years, the ideological seeds of
the past fifty years going back to before the
Counter-culture movement, ideals of complete and
total secularization and big government have been
realized. We are seeing more and more that
peoples cries for tolerance does not tolerant free
speech that goes against their ideology. More and
more hate speech is being defined as anything that
disagrees with The LGBQT platform. Mircoagressions that are considered offensive as
starting to be used today by colleges today to
reinforce their ideology. Public institutions are
starting to punish anyone who speaks out against
what culture values today. The Nazis started ritual

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book burnings in 1933 to purge the culture from
any ideas that didnt line up with the Partys ideals.
They had an ally with young students in the
National Socialist German Students Association.
Its not a far stretch to picture the purging of
traditional constitutional ideals from the culture
with the allies of socialist and communist groups in
addition to the LGBQT. What we are seeing in the
political world due to the ideological seeds rooted
in the cultural, specifically in reference to the
Constitutions validity and honor is a suppression of
the values that America was built on; Freedom
from overbearing government, self-evident truth.
Morality, sanctity of life, and freedom of opinion
and expression.
Returning to the spark of this discussion, Black
Lives Matters is committed to ending systemic
injustices in the police department, but how many
laws will they find that need to can be attributed to
being racist and that need to be changed within
the justice system? How long will they search until
they turn to the federal government to help them
end racism? And how long before they cry out for
the government to take over local law enforcement
well?
One has to wonder what would happen if a
growing
lawless,
and
militarized
Federal
Government gained control over Local Law

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Enforcement
and
moved
away
from
the
constitution and its Bills of rights and began to
enforce the cultural ideology on its people.
Just a thought.