Analyst notes:  Here is further progress by the Feds to turn local police into an arm of the federal gestapo.  With money, gifts, and training the DHS is ingratiating themselves to our State and local police agencies.  When push comes t shove we can expect the hand of Big Government to be next door now.  This blurring of boundaries between federal and state law enforcement is purposeful and insidious. Everyone knows that the laws each enforce are specific to either the federal or to the State criminal code and authority does not allow one to enforce the other!  Witness the commotion about Arizona trying to enforce federal immigration law.  Do you want the feds to enforce and police local traffic laws, how about murder, theft, and other violations of State statute?  Let it blur and see how many brown shirts we will have in our neighborhoods!  There is a reason that local police are under LOCAL control.... and it needs to stay that way.