(Bob Scales): DOJ civil rights attorneys came out from the shadows yesterday to hold a virtual “community” meeting in Phoenix. DOJ has been silent since they released their pattern-or-practice findings in June at a virtual press conference: https://lnkd.in/dw7YQAb9 DOJ has refused to speak with City officials during the three-year investigation and after their findings were…
Bob Scales recently wrote this: The Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) routinely lies to the public and the media in order to coerce cities into signing consent decrees. This video from Arizona Police Lawyer provides proof that DOJ’s pattern-or-practice findings on the Phoenix Police Department were fabricated and were not…
Bob Scales appeared on the 3 Cops Talk Podcast. As usual, it was very informative and exposes what the DOJ is doing to cities across America. You can and should listen below: Listen Here
We need to have a public debate on the merits and impacts of consent decrees imposed by the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ will not discuss or comment on its pattern-or-practice investigations until it is ready to hold a national press conference to reveal their findings. This leaves cities…
This new report on the impacts of DOJ consent decrees speaks for itself. Unfortunately, you will never see any articles about this report in the New York Times, Washington Post, or any other mainstream news organization. The media simply regurgitates what the DOJ tells them to say and so all you will see are positive…
Phoenix has called DOJ’s bluff. Phoenix has told the DOJ Civil Rights Division that they will refuse to sign a consent decree even before DOJ has released its pattern-or-practice findings. This is a historic event and could bring down the entire consent decree industrial complex. Phoenix has told DOJ that during the more than two-year…
In early November the US Department of Justice (DOJ) held secret closed-door meetings with the Phoenix Police Chief and the City Manager to discuss the DOJ’s pattern-or-practice investigation of the Phoenix Police Department. These two city officials failed to disclose to the City Council or the community that these meetings occurred, and they refused to…
What is happening in Louisville? In March the US Department of Justice (DOJ) held a press conference announcing that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) had a pattern-or-practice of unconstitutional policing. DOJ said that LMPD officers routinely violated constitutional rights and that the only remedy was for the City to enter into a consent decree….
Consent decrees are dangerous and lead to increased crime. Harvard Professor Roland Fryer’s recent study showed that DOJ pattern-or-practice investigations of police departments have resulted in hundreds of additional homicides: Consent decrees also suppress legitimate prosecutions of violent felons. As a former prosecutor, this story from Minneapolis makes me furious. Here are the facts: A…