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…
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a pattern-or-practice investigation of the City of Lexington Mississippi and its police department. Here is the transcript from DOJ’s national press conference. I translated the remarks to remove the political rhetoric: ♻ “Police misconduct in smaller communities may not always garner national attention, but rest assured, the…
The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association is trying to protect its officers, and the community, from the abuses of DOJ consent decrees. In the absence of leadership from Phoenix PD and city management, the union is stepping up to fill the information void and warn the public about the dangers of federal oversight. For the last…
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has been revealing its new strategy for consent decrees. Rather than finding full and effective compliance and ending federal oversight, DOJ is planning to keep local police departments under perpetual federal control. Seattle, Portland and Albuquerque have been working under DOJ consent decrees for many years. Since the for-profit…
After five years under a consent decree, the for-profit monitor says that Chicago PD has only achieved 6% full compliance. At this rate of progress, Chicago PD will be under a consent decree for at least 22 years. The for-profit monitor, who determines compliance with the decree, makes about $4 million a year, so her…
The unfortunate truth is that there are entities both within and outside the Phoenix Police Department that WANT the Department of Justice (DOJ) to manage the Phoenix Police Department. Considering what a consent decree has done to communities across the country, that sounds CRAZY but crazy likes to make money and there is a lot…
The recent article titled “Phoenix really needs federal monitoring of police” is both dangerous and deceitful. While it’s hard to comprehend how someone without any law enforcement experience, in any of the areas discussed, could so boldly write a piece designed to inflame the emotions of our citizens through emotionally laden rhetoric, it certainly is…
(AZ Central): Two years ago, the Department of Justice launched a witch hunt against the Phoenix Police Department over claims that there are patterns and practices of misconduct and racial bias. Rather than serve the role of a neutral legal arbiter, DOJ succumbed to the political pressure and hysteria of anti-police activists. Now, Phoenix police…
This is the smoking gun that should be the death knell for all DOJ consent decrees in the United States. I previously posted about an annual closed-door, invitation-only Consent Decree Conference: https://lnkd.in/dNqKJZaH This is the conference agenda. Speaker panels are made up of federal judges, DOJ attorneys and for-profit monitors who are actively engaged in…
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is conducting a pattern and practice investigation into the Phoenix Police Department. The DOJ is examining whether the PPD is involved in unconstitutional policing – particularly whether Phoenix PD uses excessive force or has other illegal police policies. But Phoenix City Council needs to decide what Phoenix will…