How much conflict is there between local police and FBI?
Just some end-of-thread, back-of-the-envelope thoughts: On a broad level, I think there have historically been divisions between different law enforcement agencies. For instance, our recently departed police chief was in awe, based on his prior career in another state, of how well our city police and county sheriff’s deputies cooperated, with mutual swearing-in allowing them to substitute for each other in emergencies and ongoing cooperative committees and equipment sharing arrangements. Obviously this is not unheard of but neither is it commonplace. Probably a generation ago, before a lot of federal money kicked in for primarily drug-war-related task forces, it was a bigger problem. The Chicago-area Brown’s Chicken massacre[pdf]^ investigation showed that multiple local police agencies had little to no experi
