The Biden administration is posting a reward for anyone who can tell it how to find violent extremists in law enforcement.
The Department of Homeland Security has put $500,000 on the table to fund research projects aimed at determining how violent extremists are infiltrating the police.
“The goal of this solicitation is to contribute to a comprehensive and extensive understanding of insider threats facing domestic law enforcement agencies,” the request for proposals posted on grants.gov reads.
“Objectives of this effort will identify high quality data to understand the risks posed to the United States by the potential for violent extremist organizations or lone actors to infiltrate law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and other government institutions,” the RFP says.
Lawmakers in four states and Washington, D.C., want to give law enforcement agencies more power to exclude people with extremist ties from police ranks. But the proposals they thought were straightforward have encountered a thicket of obstacles.https://t.co/ErKDrnQqQP
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 11, 2021
The request for proposals comes as Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department is conducting an internal review to figure out how it can weed out extremists from the ranks of federal law enforcement, according to NBC.
By Jack Davis
