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The FBI is too big... hopefully this will be a disincentive to not look for jobs there. Every state already has its own police force. There's no need for a massive federal agency to do the same type of stuff.

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What about crimes which transcend state jurisdiction (try getting 12 different state police forces to co-ordinate and run thousands of investigations together and see how well it goes)? Or issues like counter-intelligence? Or areas where local police forces are corrupt and won't investigate?

What about when the FBI is corrupt?

Counterintelligence is CIA/NSA (who would never be in danger of that).

The CIA is not authorized to operate domestically, counter-intelligence is the remit of the FBI.

We’ll, that would help their agents afford rent I guess

We also have the CIA and NSA

Those are not law enforcement bodies. This is on purpose. We do not want them to be law enforcement bodies.

Both of those entities are forbidden from doing operations on US soil.

The spooks spooks, the DIA, don't even get brought up much despite them being such a big deal in terms of doing "james bond" shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency

This doesn't mean that FBI will not have plenty of high paying workers as contractors, it just means that there will be less high quality FBI employees.

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