Reuters confirms something I& #39;d heard but didn’t quite nail down: that the Trump administration’s effort to find evidentiary support to justify their predetermined decision to shut down broad police reform efforts fell flat on its face. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-justice-specialreport/special-report-how-u-s-justice-department-disarmed-its-police-reform-effort-idUSKBN26N2VE">https://www.reuters.com/article/u...
Sessions admitted to me right after he became attorney general that he hadn’t actually read any of DOJ’s “pattern or practice” investigations, but nevertheless considered them “anecdotal.” (They were not.) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-doj-police_n_58b4a2eae4b060480e0b1ce6">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jef...
“We had a very good sense of the extent of the problem and what we thought were the kinds of reforms that were necessary, and then have folks come in who know virtually nothing,” a former DOJ employee said. “It sucks a lot, as I’m sure you could imagine.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ferguson-justice-department-police-reform-trump-pattern-or-practice_n_5d4b18b3e4b0066eb70bad87">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fer...
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