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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison
I was not too pleased when they created the Department of Homeland Security in the first place. Don't we have enough law enforcement agencies already?
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The audience here might care to visit Wikipedia. Then put "gestapo" into the search box. In part, you will learn this:
“As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring—future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official—was named Interior Minister of Prussia. This gave him command of the largest police force in Germany. Soon afterward, Göring detached the political and intelligence sections from the police and filled their ranks with Nazis. On 26 April 1933, Göring merged the two units as the Gestapo…
“Göring himself urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany. This represented a radical departure from German tradition, which held that law enforcement was (mostly) a Land (state) and local matter.”
Any of this sound familiar?