>That is for the state, and local municipalities to decide - not congress. Congress can attach strings, just like they do to tons of other things. >Policing i

>That is for the state, and local municipalities to decide - not congress. Congress can attach strings, just like they do to tons of other things. >Policing is best done at the local level. The police force needs to be local, and beholden to locals. It would be a very perverse system to have a "federalized" police force in every town and city... I don't think you can just take that as a given. Most countries in the world have a federalized/unified police force, the Anglosphere are the weird ones here. But of course there is the RCMP as a counterexample.