I just returned from a fantastic week in Elkhart (IN) at the Breaching The Barricade Conference and I will be in Nevada, Texas, Florida and Washington in the next few months speaking at other conferences but there is one conference this month that I was not invited to speak. In fact, unlike all other police…
Executive Summary (Manhattan Institute) In 2019, the Chicago Police Department (CPD)—one of the most controversial police departments in the nation—was placed under a federally enforced consent decree that mandates sweeping reforms and subjects the department to the supervision of a court-appointed independent monitor. Although implementation of the decree is still ongoing, this report reviews the…
Seattle has more homicides than new police hires in 2023: https://lnkd.in/d6jHiteY There is an obvious reason for this grim statistic. A study from Harvard economist Roland Fryer found that pattern or practice investigations conducted by the Civil Rights Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sometimes resulted in hundreds of deaths. See: “Policing the Police:…
Note: There are very few that speak the truth on what Consent Decrees are doing to our communities but Bob Scales is not one of them. Mr. Scales has intimate knowledge, after working with the DOJ, what consent decrees are actually about and we have found encouragement from him. He often speaks about the issue…
A recent interview with Interim Phoenix Police Chief Michael Sullivan on the DOJ Investigation revealed some rather cryptic messages that may signal a future focus from the Department of Justice and questions as to whether Sullivan is proactively preparing for the DOJ Investigation. The investigation into the Phoenix Police Department hit the two year mark…
This paper provides the first empirical examination of the impact of federal and state “Pattern-or-Practice” investigations on crime and policing. For investigations that were not preceded by “viral” incidents of deadly force, investigations, on average, led to a statistically significant reduction in homicides and total crime. In stark contrast, all investigations that were preceded by…
I have discussed consent decrees and the damage they are doing to communities in detail here in recent months and while I need to move on, the danger they pose to communities cannot be overstated. With a 30 year track record of making cities more violent while destroying local police agencies, it is hard to understand why any city would even…
The Department of Justice has the authority to conduct “pattern and practice” investigations into departments it suspects of violating constitutional rights. But what does that even mean? What are the conditions and criteria for such an investigation? Law enforcement is already a delicate business. Cops everywhere know the stakes, and police also go to great…