What I'm saying is that we already have that situation with the laws that the FBI, DEA, and ATF enforce, not to mention the IRS and the other alphabet soup of Federal LE agencies.
Right now, they create "task forces" when, for example, going after drug dealers, because they can't pull some guy over for speeding to toss his shit. Speeding laws are under local authority.
This centralization you're worried about, has already happened. They are just accelerating it with using the carrot and stick of federal grant dollars, and seizure funds, to control how local agencies do their own enforcement priorities, etc.
Nixon started the war on drugs as a way to go after blacks and hippies and other undesirables...the Left in general. It worked. But when the Democrats got the levers of power, as invariably happens, the barrel that was pointed at the left is now pointed at the right.
What I'm saying is that we already have that situation with the laws that the FBI, DEA, and ATF enforce, not to mention the IRS and the other alphabet soup of Federal LE agencies.
Right now, they create "task forces" when, for example, going after drug dealers, because they can't pull some guy over for speeding to toss his shit. Speeding laws are under local authority.
This centralization you're worried about, has already happened. They are just accelerating it with using the carrot and stick of federal grant dollars, and seizure funds, to control how local agencies do their own enforcement priorities, etc.
Nixon started the war on drugs as a way to go after blacks and hippies and other undesirables...the Left in general. It worked. But when the Democrats got the levers of power, as invariably happens, the barrel that was pointed at the left is now pointed at the right.