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| Jeff Sessions: Consent decrees prevent 'proactive policing that keeps our cities safe' |
| 2017-04-19 |
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned in a late Monday op-ed for USA Today that recent efforts to reform police practices have focused too much on the "small number of police who are bad actors, rather than on criminals." "[T]oo many people believe the solution is to impose consent decrees that discourage the proactive policing that keeps our cities safe," he wrote. Sessions has openly criticized consent decrees a means of reforming local and state police departments. This month, he called for a sweeping review of any consent decrees, which are court-binding agreements between the federal government and a police department on how to reform, that were reached before President Trump took office or that are currently being negotiated. |
| Posted by:Fred |