Life Without the FBI: Examining the Impact on Crime and National Security

Exploring the Impact of Removing Federal Agents on Crime, Enforcement, and the Tenth Amendment

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What if every Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent went to lunch on a Friday afternoon, and just didn’t come back to work for a week? Would our nation survive? What would that do to crime statistics in our country?  How about Human Trafficking?

The Bureau of Investigation: 1909

I thought I was proposing an edgy and original idea. This has been considered by every congress for the past 115 years and as recently as March. The Department of Justice investigators were formed on July 26, 1908 and in March of 1909, Attorney General Wickersham named, what is now the FBI, formally as the Bureau of Investigation. Long before the still unsolved case of the Lindbergh baby, the Mann Act, also known as the White Slave Traffic Act,  gave the Bureau of Investigation its legs.

PBS reports:  “The Mann Act made it a crime to transport women across state lines ‘for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.’ While designed to combat forced prostitution, the law was so broadly worded that courts held it to criminalize many forms of consensual sexual activity, and it was soon being used as a tool for political persecution of Jack Johnson and others, as well as a tool for blackmail.”

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In 1910, Jack Johnson was the rage of the age. The son of freed slaves was born in Galveston in 1878. He was taught boxing and became a dominant force over time. He was dismissed by white boxing associations until 1908 where he defeated Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia and earned the title ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.”  Jim Jeffries came out of retirement, labeled by Jack London, the ‘Great White Hope’ for the fight of the century in 1910 but Johnson beat him like a drum. The National Museum of African American History and Culture preserves his story.

“Johnson’s relationships with white women, including one with Belle Schreiber, a known prostitute who had accompanied him on a journey from Pittsburgh to Chicago, sparked considerable controversy.”