Police misconduct and corruption continues in our nations local police departments. This is not something that is new or has been sprung upon us. It is something that has been occurring for years. The media reports on this story daily. It is seen from cases like Michael Brown in Missouri where an unarmed black male teenager was shot to death by a white police officer. We have seen it in Baltimore where Freddie gray died from officers that gave him a rough ride while in custody. Then it was reported by the media in New York when Eric Garner was choked out and died by a police officer for selling cigarettes.
These cases are a few of the most recent cases of police misconduct that have been happening in our country these last few years. Congress …show more content…
Political leaders believed that the government had become too powerful. They also thought that this power should be given back to the states. The main purpose of this new federalism was to give control of some of the federal programs to state and local governments. Former President Richard Nixon was the main promoter of the new federalism.
When Ronald Reagan was elected President he too was huge promoter of the new federalism. His motives were different than those of Nixon. In fact he had two ideas that were associated with conservative politics. The first one was to decrease the size of the federal government and secondly make it run with more efficiency. In the name of new federalism Reagan was interested in trimming the spending by the government, cut down taxes and cut back on the influence Washington has on the states. “Nixon pushed for efficiency and economy of scale, while Reagan fought for the reduction of the governmental bureaucracy, especially in those areas that were perceived as being in conflict with conservative political agenda of the President” (Starkes, 1989, p. …show more content…
They wondered if they could handle it and should they be left in the hands of the federal government. “The design of the new federalism was most probably overcome by the urgency to pass certain programs and responsibilities to the states and local jurisdictions” (Broadnax, 1981, p. 231). Broadnax (1981) advised that if the present approach to creating the new federalism remains constant, state and local governments will be handed a vague outline for policy making with the presumption that whatever each individual jurisdiction may decide to do will in the collective sense represent our national domestic policy.
“As state and local government begin to understand the hidden costs and requirements embedded in the new federalism, it is hoped that one of the positive outcomes will be a new modernization in state and local government” (Broadnax, 1981, p. 235).
“The return of federalism to a prominent and hotly contested place in constitutional jurisprudence is one of the most important legal developments of the last half-century” (Sawyer III, 2014, p. 221). The best way to show how constitutional federalism returned is by showing how the structural changes to the American government occurred in the late 60’s and
These cases are a few of the most recent cases of police misconduct that have been happening in our country these last few years. Congress …show more content…
Political leaders believed that the government had become too powerful. They also thought that this power should be given back to the states. The main purpose of this new federalism was to give control of some of the federal programs to state and local governments. Former President Richard Nixon was the main promoter of the new federalism.
When Ronald Reagan was elected President he too was huge promoter of the new federalism. His motives were different than those of Nixon. In fact he had two ideas that were associated with conservative politics. The first one was to decrease the size of the federal government and secondly make it run with more efficiency. In the name of new federalism Reagan was interested in trimming the spending by the government, cut down taxes and cut back on the influence Washington has on the states. “Nixon pushed for efficiency and economy of scale, while Reagan fought for the reduction of the governmental bureaucracy, especially in those areas that were perceived as being in conflict with conservative political agenda of the President” (Starkes, 1989, p. …show more content…
They wondered if they could handle it and should they be left in the hands of the federal government. “The design of the new federalism was most probably overcome by the urgency to pass certain programs and responsibilities to the states and local jurisdictions” (Broadnax, 1981, p. 231). Broadnax (1981) advised that if the present approach to creating the new federalism remains constant, state and local governments will be handed a vague outline for policy making with the presumption that whatever each individual jurisdiction may decide to do will in the collective sense represent our national domestic policy.
“As state and local government begin to understand the hidden costs and requirements embedded in the new federalism, it is hoped that one of the positive outcomes will be a new modernization in state and local government” (Broadnax, 1981, p. 235).
“The return of federalism to a prominent and hotly contested place in constitutional jurisprudence is one of the most important legal developments of the last half-century” (Sawyer III, 2014, p. 221). The best way to show how constitutional federalism returned is by showing how the structural changes to the American government occurred in the late 60’s and