In this issue of The Law Enforcement Charitable Foundation’s Intelligence Brief we review a serious threat confronting police officers: the violent Antifa organization that has openly vowed to overthrow the government of the United States. This dangerous revolutionary group, which traces its roots to communist/anarchist groups in Germany in the 1930s, is now demonstrating its hatred of America at every opportunity.
The masked thugs of Antifa (which is short for Anti-fascist) have already perpetrated riots all across America. In several cities where Antifa has caused riots and serious destruction, police officers have been ordered, by leftist mayors and city councils, to stand down and have not been allowed to institute preventive action to reduce injury and property damage. A better understanding of this dangerous group is necessary if further civil disorder is to be prevented. We hope the following article will offer some insight in assisting law enforcement to recognize the dangers Antifa represents to them and their colleagues.
In addition to the serious problem that Antifa represents to law enforcement, we have included an article exposing organizations that encourage the assaults on police officers. The inflammatory rhetoric from Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Communists Party has encouraged the distrust of police officers, and in many cases this has resulted in assaults and deadly attacks on police. Some groups reviewed in this issue, such as the Moors, have a long history of anti-American activity. One “Moor” allegedly assassinated two police officers in Kissimmee, Florida, recently. Sadly, the media have not covered this tragic event as they did with Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
In the final article for this issue of the Intelligence Brief, we review the potential danger of a national police force. LECF firmly believes police officers should be accountable to local authority and not directives from Washington that would control their day-to-day activities. Accepting equipment and grants from Washington frequently comes with specific instructions that redirect, and in some cases, restrict local police from their mission and responsibility to local government and the citizens they serve.
The Law Enforcement Charitable Foundation publishes the Intelligence Brief twice a year to assist police agencies throughout the United States in their understanding of potential problems that police officers often face, and, in many cases, are ill prepared to handle, due to lack of intelligence information. It is the mission of LECF to help fill that void.
Sincerely,
James F. Fitzgerald
President, Law Enforcement
Charitable Foundation, Inc.,
Former Newark, N.J., detective
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