Badges - Re: Obama cracks down on abuses by big-city police departments
- From: C D Rowsell <cd2u@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:08:32 -0700
And coming soon to a police department near you. Barry and Eric both hate
cops, so what else is new? The question I have is, how many of these
departments have Chiefs that DON'T support the Democratic party? The ONLY
reason this question even comes up is from the prior actions of Holder which
makes anything he does meet the criteria for reasonable suspicion.
CD
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<http://www.salon.com/news/department_of_justice/index.html?story=/politics/
war_room/2011/05/30/justice_department_civil_rights_police>
Obama cracks down on abuses by big-city police departments
In a marked shift from the Bush administration, President Obama's
Justice Department is aggressively investigating several big urban
police departments for systematic civil rights abuses such as
harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force.
In interviews, activists and attorneys on the ground in several
cities where the DOJ has dispatched civil rights investigators
welcomed the shift. To progressives disappointed by Eric Holder's
Justice Department on key issues like the failure to investigate
Bush-era torture and the prosecution of whistle-blowers, recent
actions by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division are a bright spot.
In just the past few months, the Civil Rights Division has announced
"pattern and practice" investigations in Newark, New Jersey and
Seattle. It's also conducting a preliminary investigation of the
Denver Police Department, and all this is on top of a high-profile
push to reform the notorious New Orleans Police Department -- as well
as criminal prosecutions of several New Orleans officers.
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