Profiling Eric Holder

Pattern or practice” police litigation did drop significantly under the Bush administration, though to its discredit Bush’s DOJ did not try to dismantle the existing consent decrees. Some criminologists are already calling for the Obama administration to revive Clinton-era tactics. This Thursday, during attorney general–designate Holder’s confirmation hearings, senators should ask him on what grounds he would inflict his civil-rights attorneys on police departments. They should also inquire whether he believes that a racially disparate stop rate provides prima facie evidence of police racism.

As the economic recession deepens, the last thing cash-strapped police departments and municipalities need is more expensive federal consent decrees. Siccing clueless federal attorneys on big-city police departments will only hamper their ability to fight crime and hasten urban decline.

Freeper ftrader's thesis was quite simple ~ that Eric Holder had a secret purpose of convincing the killer of Mary Caitlin Mahoney to cop a plea so that NO DISCOVERY would occur in the case, and no hard questions would be asked that would lead back to "whoever" ~ at that time (2001) Bill Clinton possibly?

The position argued in the thread was that Eric was against the death penalty yet for the District's first death penalty case under a new federal law overriding the DC law on the matter, he actually targeted a black man!

So why did he do that?

Janet Reno had actually directed Eric to ask for the death penalty, yet there's ol'Eric asking for a plea ~

This is what I've referred to as Eric's apparant interest in keeping the FBI or other federal investigatory bodies out of this case lest, as it might turn out, somebody in the White House had been in on the murder.

I'm just guessing that Obama and his little friends on the other end of the blackberry network don't know all that much about Eric.

Rather than being a real opponent of the death penalty, it can be argued that he puts partisan protectiveness above justice. No doubt Obama would like that presuming he's as bloody handed as he wants us to believe.

Excuseme ~ not that Eric is asking for a plea, he's setting up the perp to think he ought to ask for a plea ~ the whole business of the death penalty was just to threaten him into coughing up enough evidence to shut down the case after a quick plea bargain.

Guy said he used to pistols ~ told the cops exactly where he put them ~ they never showed up.

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