>Or... state agencies just cooperate with each other when its necessary and use the circuit court system to compel it if they need to. You make great points and I think they are legit. However, the criminals can just cross the border and disappear and ruin a police pursuit and investigation. Which is exactly what the organized crime mobsters did in the 1920s which is why we ended up with interstate police to begin with. There is also infighting and jurisdiction arguments that are timewasters that result in criminals being more criminally. You also just described the pre-FBI organization (called the Bureau of Investigation) which was a cooperative of police across state lines where they kept evidence and investigations into interstate criminals and local courts. We COULD go back to something like that and put rules in place that govern what they can and cannot do to keep them from crossing the line. But you know it's only a matter of time before the restrictions are taken off for whatever reason and we go back to where we were before with warrantless wiretapping, mass surveillance, corruption, and bugging. >Anything we replace the FBI with is just going to instantly be the FBI under a different name. Above, you described the precursor to the FBI. Because we did not have interstate police working, specifically, on federal-level criminal cases and interstate cases. So they had to cooperate and pool their evidence/resources. You're kicking the can down the road and creating the same problem that existed pre-FBI which resulted in the FBI. We will always end up with an FBI-like organization no matter how it is cut as long as we have states and no non-military national police. Also, when the FBI was created, Americans freaked out because it is literally a national police system. >All the FBI really does is orchestrate crimes and false flags. I think this is hyperbole on your part and you're not being literal but that's definitely not what most of the FBI folks are doing while working at the FBI. What you're talking about is those morons who are involved in politics and political corruption (I view the drug war as also part of that political corruption). And for the feds reading our conversation, you know who you are. I honestly do not know the ratio of feds working legit cases vs. the corruption stuff, though. But I do know there are a crapload of field agents who are patriots and they are doing a good job. I went to church with a couple a few years back and they were every bit the gun-loving, constitutional loving, gun nuts we are. Granted, they worked human trafficking and international drug cases...which might be why they seemed different. They made it clear that there are DC feds and the "field" feds.