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…
We were sent this podcast by Dr. Travis Yates, who has been speaking about the negative consequences of federal government oversight of law enforcement agencies for some time. It’s worth the listen: When the Phoenix Police Department stood firm against the Department of Justice’s consent decree, they didn’t just shake the foundations of federal oversight—they…
Last week’s developments by the city of Phoenix that advised the DOJ that they were not going to agree to a police consent decree was historic and you deserve all of the credit for making that happen. There is no question in our minds that the city would have never made that decision if it…
In an official letter from the Phoenix Police Department to Vanita Gupta Associate Attorney General of the United States, the Phoenix Police Department has advised the DOJ that they will not agree to a consent decree.You can read the letter to the DOJ here and you can read the attached document highlighting the reforms that…
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 this video excerpt from the LEO Roundtable Podcast, Dr. Travis Yates discusses the constitutionality of police consent decrees. The 10th Amendment states The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people Tenth Amendment is similar…
The summary report from the DOJ on the Phoenix Police Department will likely be released within weeks and it’s time to discuss exactly what that is and what it is designed to do. Regardless of what consent decree you read, they are very similar and designed to intimidate the decision makers into agreeing with what…
The new year in Phoenix has brought a turn of events in the multiple year, 6 million dollar saga, that has been the DOJ investigating the Phoenix Police Department. The DOJ wants the city council to sign an agreement for a consent decree but when the council asked for the actual results of the investigation,…
As we mentioned in a previous article, the DOJ has a problem. For the first time, a major city has refused to simply sign up for a multi-million dollar consent decree, that promises higher violence and fewer cops, before seeing the results of the investigation. The DOJ can’t leave because that would signal to future…
PHOENIX – As the U.S. Department of Justice continues its investigation into the Phoenix Police Department, members of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office providing some insight to the Phoenix City Council, explaining their own dealings with a federal investigation. Phoenix Police has been under investigation by the DOJ since August 2021, over patterns of practice…