FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers. The
family unit will be abolished ... All churches who condemn us will
be closed ... We too are capable of firing guns and manning
barricades of the ultimate revolution.”Regardless of who is involved in these riots, the police and the military
will be mobilized to bring order. In 1965, the Department of Justice
established the Office of Law Enforcement Assistance to help the local
police fight crime. In 1968, as part of the Crime Control Act, it became
known as the Law Enforcement Assistance Agency (LEAA). Charles H.
Rogovin, an administrator of the LEAA, said in an October 1, 1969
speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police, meeting in
Miami: “If local law enforcement fails, then something else will replace
it. I do not raise the spectre of a federal police force merely to frighten
you. Look at the organized crime field. We now see a substantial
federal effort there– and not simply because organized crime is
interstate in nature. It is also because law enforcement has failed to do
its job.” The LEAA originally discussed the possibility of a National
Police Force to be used in the event of a civil disturbance, for crowd
dispersal and to neutralize revolutionary leadership. However, an
article in the January 15, 1973 edition of the Boston Herald American
talked about the “plans for reorganization, regionalization and
consolidation of police departments.”The Deputy Attorney General of California had said during a
conference on Civil Emergency Management that “anyone who attacks
the state, even verbally, becomes a revolutionary and an enemy by
definition. They are the enemy and must be destroyed.” On December
30, 1975, after it was signed into law by Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown,
Jr., the California National Guard announced that they were prepared
to provide emergency assistance to any local police force in the
country. They introduced the 1,200 member Law Enforcement
Assistance Force (LEAF), which was a specially trained and equipped
military police force to handle mass disturbances and riots, which
could be put into place within 12 hours. Although they were phased
out in the mid-1980’s it appeared that LEAF was the forerunner of a
national police force.This national police force began taking shape through the Multi-
Jurisdictional Task Force (MJTF), a creation of the Department of