Posted on 04/08/2017 5:39:03 AM PDT by blam
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a statement Friday raising concerns over a consent decree to impose federal monitoring of the Baltimore Police Department.
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The DOJ, now under Trump-appointee Sessions, had sought to delay or modify the 227-page decree, which sets out extensive regulations of police conduct and calls for a “Community Oversight Taskforce” to monitor officers throughout Baltimore. U.S. District Judge James Bredar, however, refused to deviate from the agreement that Sessions described, in his statement, as “negotiated during a rushed process by the previous administration and signed only days before they left office.”
Sessions pointed to the so-called “Ferguson effect” taking place in Baltimore since the Gray-riots, where police back off enforcement for fear of inflaming the public fury and incurring sanction for civil rights violations. According to Session’s statement:
Baltimore has seen a 22 percent increase in violent crime in just the last year. While arrests in the city fell 45 percent based on some of these ill-advised reforms, homicides rose 78 percent and shootings more than doubled. Just in 2017, we’ve seen homicides are up another 42 percent compared to this time last year. In short, the citizens of Baltimore are plagued by a rash of violent crime that shows no signs of letting up.
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One of the strangest consent decrees is one that was issued in the sixties, I think, that gave the NAACP control over the Baton Rouge school board. As far as I know, still in effect.
The real racism is those in charge - 99.9% democrat big-wig fed types - said to care so much, get their goodies by such programs, set up social justice oversights, etc., whereby only keeping blacks in inner cities down, permanent underclass to keep voting for them...leaving them in exactly the same place as before, but only saying they care. Blacks for the most part, get suckered, then they have someone to blame, like, Nixon’s war on drugs, prison industry, etc. Whereas the real culprits are the “compassionate” safety net programs from Wilson, FDR, Johnson...Nixon and war on drugs is guilty, too, but not a root cause. Fatherlessness, pure and simple.
“Baltimore has seen a 22 percent increase in violent crime in just the last year. While arrests in the city fell 45 percent based on some of these ill-advised reforms, homicides rose 78 percent and shootings more than doubled. Just in 2017, we’ve seen homicides are up another 42 percent compared to this time last year. In short, the citizens of Baltimore are plagued by a rash of violent crime that shows no signs of letting up.”
This is “community organizing”, Alinsky-style.
Never forget that Nancy Pelosi’s father was the most corrupt mayor of Baltimore. Tammany Hall pales in comparison.
It is..... and a federal judge, for decades, has used it to destroy the EBRP school system
just cancel them Jeff!
He taught $200 million Nancy well.
Why can’t Sessions just void the consent decree and tell Judge Bredar to F-off.
I believe Newark NJ has a similar issue with Sessions. As I see it, “federal monitoring” just means “hire only blacks”...
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