Sessions Orders Review Of Police Reform Agreements

[NRaleighLiberal]

Source: TPM Livewire

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published APRIL 4, 2017, 7:03 AM EDT

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday ordered the Justice Department to review agreements with police departments for reform made during the Obama administration.

Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department investigated several police departments, looking for patterns of discrimination and excessive force, and made agreements known as consent degrees with some departments.

In a Monday memo, Sessions said that the department will review all "collaborative investigations and prosecutions, grant making, technical assistance and training, compliance reviews, existing or contemplated consent decrees, and task force participation" to make sure that they are aligned with the department's priorities.

The Washington Post first reported the memo on Monday night.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sessions-review-police-reform-agreements

[bench scientist]

1. How long before Sessions finds a "reason" to overturn these agreements?

[Nitram]

5. I doubt most police departments would want to change them, now that they have been made.

They know it is in their best interests to have good relations with their local community. Sessions cannot unilaterally cancel the agreements.

[HAB911]

2. Prep for Police State 2.0

[Achilleaze]

3. Sigh

KGOP-style KristoFascism getting its bureaucratic ducks in line before The Big Boot & The Big Purge.

[Orrex]

4. Pence is worried that we're not killing enough black men and women (nt)

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[Zorro]

6. Why is this under-oath liar still Attorney General?

[pfitz59]

8. He wants to unleash the jackbooys

and demolish civil rights. little Nazi.