Eben Bratcher News Today

The Yuma County Board of Supervisors on Monday authorized the Sheriff’s Office to collaborate with the Yuma Police Department on a bomb squad.

A newly formed Strategic Plan Committee has been tasked with updating the Yuma County Strategic Plan to be brought before the Board of Supervisors in 2024.

Members of the nation’s police forces actually surged after the Jan. 6 insurrection in which Oath Keepers played a key role.

The far-right Oath Keepers militia has a foothold in mainstream seats of power, says a study that exposes the groups 600-strong membership in politics, police and military.

Since October, Customs and Border Protection reported close to 22,000 encounters in the Yuma Sector. That's a 2,647% increase from this time last year.

Hacked data reveals the breadth and depth of the penetration into the ranks of law-enforcement authorities by far-right extremists like the Oath Keepers.

Some more unsettling news about law enforcement's close relationship to (or at least professional tolerance of) far-right groups...