The New American
Republican lawmakers in Arizona have introduced a bill that would prohibit “any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the United States government that is inconsistent with any Arizona state law regarding the authority of state and local law enforcement agencies.”
As described by the Tenth Amendment Center:
Practically speaking, the passage of HB2309 would ensure state and local police remain exclusively under state control. The proposed law would limit the powers of state and local police in Arizona to those provided for in state law, and law enforcement agents would not be able to take on additional powers by virtue of federal law alone. If membership on a joint state/federal task forces involves additional police powers not provided for in state law, Arizona police would be barred from participating with the task force.
For many years, I have chronicled the federal government’s consolidation of control over local law enforcement. For a couple of decades now, the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has silently and gradually converted local police agencies into regional subdivisions of the surveillance state.
