"Flipping of the script"

The FBI will "embed" with Baltimore police.

So says the Baltimore Sun:

Ten federal agents will join the Baltimore police homicide unit, commanders announced Sunday, after the city followed its deadliest month in decades with a night in which 10 people were shot — seven of them in one incident. 

Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the addition of the special agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Secret Service represent a "flipping of the script of sorts."  

"That's a bit unusual because local police departments — and Baltimore is no different — historically send detectives to federal law enforcement agencies to embed with their long-term investigations," he said. 

Davis says "flipping of the script."

Obama says "fundamental transformation."

Doors may be opening for greater federal control of local police.

Obama's envisioned day of a national civilian security force may be dawning.