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Great story from @johnshiffman and @bradheath on the Trump DOJ’s retreat from police reform.
The U.S. Attorney in St. Louis wanted to launch a broad "pattern or practice” investigation into @SLMPD.
“He was shut down pretty hard.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-justice-specialreport/special-report-how-u-s-justice-department-disarmed-its-police-reform-effort-idUSKBN26N2VE
The U.S. Attorney in St. Louis wanted to launch a broad "pattern or practice” investigation into @SLMPD.
“He was shut down pretty hard.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-justice-specialreport/special-report-how-u-s-justice-department-disarmed-its-police-reform-effort-idUSKBN26N2VE
Reuters confirms something I'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
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
Sessions evidently didn’t read my roundup of many of the systemic (not anecdotal) evidence of misconduct uncovered in DOJ investigations. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-jeff-sessions-civiil-rights-police_n_58767eb3e4b092a6cae4ac97?lnswm1qaf1t0rudi=
“I’m not sure there are many more bodies of work that are so clearly about rule of law at their core. Talk about law and order: What higher law is there than the Constitution of the United States?” — @chiraagbains https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ferguson-justice-department-police-reform-trump-pattern-or-practice_n_5d4b18b3e4b0066eb70bad87
“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
100% of the broad policing probes opened during the Trump administration uncovered horrific patterns of police misconduct.
The issue is they only opened one. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-policing-investigation-springfield-massachusetts_n_5f065886c5b67a80bc0276f7
The issue is they only opened one. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-policing-investigation-springfield-massachusetts_n_5f065886c5b67a80bc0276f7
