In today’s tumultuous political atmosphere, our police officers are still in danger. Groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa have made it their goal to rid our nation of police. Unfortunately, many people only see what the biased media shows them, and don’t understand the controlling factors hidden in the shadows.
An SYLP committee’s job is to uncover the hidden truths, expose the fake news, and show people why locally controlled police are vital to a free and sovereign nation. How this is done is up to the committee. Some enjoy hosting booths at gun shows and fairs. Some prefer mass mailings to elected officials. Others have more luck with speaking directly to their city council or holding fundraisers for their local K9 unit. Our goal is to educate the masses. How you do it is up to you.
Organization is the key; it is essential to educating the majority and getting the ball rolling toward preventing efforts to nationalize your local police or stopping the creation of civilian review boards – perhaps both. There may be other initiatives dreamed up by the left in the future to hamstring local police that may seem innocuous at first but lead step by step toward national control.
Give your committee a name, preferably one that correlates to the local community and police department. An example of a possible committee name could be the Fairfield SYLP Committee or the Union County SYLP Committee.
Appoint your committee Chairman. This person will serve as the leader of your group and will be expected to act on its behalf when needed. He or she should be knowledgeable on current efforts to nationalize police and why that is bad. This person should also have or be able to establish good friendly relations with the local police or sheriff. He or she does not need to be an experienced organizer, although such experience does help; this person will learn and develop such skills through time and experience, but knowledge on why we should support local police and keep them independent will be key. In addition to the Chairman of the committee, the committee senior staff should consist of a Vice Chairman, Secretary-Treasurer, Program Chairman, Publicity Chairman, and Membership Chairman. You can start with a smaller group of individuals but that means that one or two people will have to handle a greater load.
The leadership or founding members of the committee should develop a Statement of Principles (see Statement of Principals). This statement will serve as the guiding document of your committee and its activities, keeping it focused on the goal of supporting local police and preventing any attempts to nationalize them or hinder them through citizen review boards and the like.
When recruiting a new person to your committee, give them a job or position, make sure they have a friend on the committee and educate them more on both the problems and solutions associated with national police and why the police should be kept under local control. Your committee should consist of no more than 15-20 individuals.
Statement of Principals
We believe that the first and most solemn responsibility of all public officials is to protect the lives and property of the citizens of this community. Our local police, who have been entrusted with this fundamental obligation, have fulfilled their duties admirably, justly earning a reputation as “the thin blue line” protecting the law-abiding citizen from the lawbreaker.
We are extremely concerned about recent developments in this country which have imposed new and dangerous burdens on our local police. Harassment and outright attacks against the police, in many instances organized and controlled by subversives, criminals, and illegal aliens, have increased alarmingly. Court decisions have placed unreasonable restrictions on the forces of law and order, while freeing many criminals from prison and imposing only the mildest of sentences on others. And far too many politicians have bowed to the disruptive tactics and outright threats of organized pressure groups.
It is for these reasons that we have organized this Support Your Local Police Committee. We urge all responsible citizens in this community to work with us to:
- Support our local police in the performance of their duties;
- Oppose all harassment or interference with law enforcement personnel as they carry out their assigned tasks;
- Reject any “civilian review boards” or other outside “supervision” of our police;
- Prohibit the creation of any national police force, or any other centralized authority, which would replace or control our local police;
- Oppose any and all efforts to subsidize, regionalize, or federalize our local police, since any loss of their independence from outside controls will inevitably lead to a loss of our protection and safety as well;
- Accept our responsibilities to our local police, to defend them against unjust attacks, make them proud and secure in their vital profession, and to offer them our support in word and deed wherever possible.
We pledge to inaugurate a community-wide program to support our local police and keep them independent. We will work to create more understanding of the problems and threats our police face. We will remind our fellow citizens that our police have earned our help and need it now.