Abolish the FBI
Ask why do we NEED the FBI? If you think about it, most of their duties are superfluous and could be done better at the state level.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-10-05 |
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| This isn't to say that there aren't good people in the FBI. Or that the agency doesn't serve a purpose. It's just that those people shouldn't be reporting through a deep state federally controlled agency in DC. You could flatten the hierarchy, increase accountability, and increase efficiency if it was run at state or local levels. |
We are not FDR/progressive era and this is not prohibition. 90% of crimes don't need a federal government overseeing them -- and they've become a political tool of the left where they can subvert double-jeopardy by charging people locally and federally for functionally the same crime. Not to mention the cost (waste) per crime solved is far far higher than at the state or local level. They're just not efficient.
The simple solution -- there's a very very thin umbrella agency, that helps provide coordination with all the states (or groups of states that want to work together) that have their own versions of what the FBI does. The purpose of the umbrella org is just to share information, and help facilitate people/orgs that are crossing state boundaries. Most investigations are local, and the crimes that cross states could easily be handled with some reciprocity agreements or hand-offs.
So having central control abstracts the problem from the community and voters, and does the opposite of the goal of justice and transparency.
It was done under the argument that states or local communities could be corrupted and they needed federal oversight, but the truth is the federal government is often more corrupt and harder to fix -- so like most progressive solutions, it made the problems worse.
You could cut the budget dramatically, reduce bureaucratic overhead:
- in well-run states, the efficiency would go up
- in poor-run states, they'd get what they deserved
The Constitution never really allowed or intended for a federal police force... and while they serve a purpose, I'm not sure that purpose couldn't be better served with a more decentralized way. And forcing coordination across states could improve communications far more than punting to a "not my jurisdiction" the federal agency does. So this is NOT defund the police... it's let's fund it smarter and more local, and far less political than being run out of D.C. by Politicians.
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