Police departments may lose federal community policing funds. Here are some good reasons:

  • The federal government’s intrusion into state law enforcement could be described as the nationalization of the police force. That was a bad thing until revisionists rewrote Hitler’s biographies.
  • A typical grant will pay the full cost of hiring five officers for a year. The next year, the funds will be reduced, and in about five years, the local government will have to find a way to make local taxpayers pick up the bill.
  • The funds are used to pay sworn and gun-toting officers to cut paper dolls with little girls and play basketball with little boys. From the experience, kids learn, “The policeman is your friend.” This also does not sit well with the “propaganda” I learned about Hitler’s Germany.
  • The federal government does not have a quarter billion dollars to give to North Carolina for these programs.