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'Operation Byrne Blitz' makes explicit arrests-for-dollars link

By Gritsforbreakfast

Should law enforcement time arrests to generate media coverage aimed at supporting approval of pork barrel funds in the political process?That's what's happening nationwide right now with drug task forces funded by the federal Byrne grant program. We got rid of ours in Texas, thank heavens, but other states' task forces are participating in Operation Byrne Blitz, a national campaign to publicize arrests last week in order to influence debate in Congress over their money. I'd seen the stories, but didn't realize this was a formal PR effort until reading a story from Kentucky ("CKADTF arrests total 13, part of National drug blitz," The Richmond Register, March 8), describing a series of arrests that were"coordinated on the dates in conjunction with Operation Byrne Blitz...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).