Posted on 01/11/2017 10:50:46 AM PST by Olog-hai
A spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh says the city and the U.S. Justice Department have reached agreement on a consent decree that will require the city to reform its police department.
“Negotiations are done,” Anthony McCarthy said Wednesday. “The final document has gone to the principals” to be signed.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expected to speak on community policing Thursday at the University of Baltimore Law School, as well as meet with community members, law enforcement and other local officials. …
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I’m actually surprised Baltimore still has a police department. What self respecting LEO would actuaully want to work there?
If the “Just Us” Department had it’s way - there would be a federal police force there now.
With predictable results of more crime and murder.
Big Whoop.... “Stand Down Unless It’s Whitey” is still the police’s policy for eight days and change.
Is the negotiated settlement really an improvement or will the community suffer the shooters and rioters because the police will not act. Will the penalty be too great. I believe the Constitution really means you are responsible for your own defense!
Wall up the city and let those people live in the community the created.
Why not just disband the PD and be done with it. Not many left there anyway.
Foolish Baltimore power structure. There is no way a sane operation would approve a Lynch JD consent agreement with Obama and Lynch on the way out.
The people of Baltimore are getting what they deserve, and getting it good and hard.
Big Whoop.... “Stand Down Unless It’s Whitey” is still the police’s policy for eight days and change.
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Wasn’t their last policy change “give them space to destroy?”
Yep, they got the arrangement in under the wire.
“Wasn’t their last policy change ‘give them space to destroy?’”
I paraphrased the existing one.
(A Caucasian mob burning and looting would have been stopped)
They have a new mayor but I think it’s same old same old stuck on stupid.
The last Republican Mayor left office in 1967.
Kennedy was President during his time, I was born then, MLK was alive, Armstrong hadn’t walked on the moon, most of the technology we know now wasn’t even a dream.
The Motown sound was in it’s infancy.
Since then, Baltimore, like all liberal run big cities has gone from once greatness to a shadow. I grew up near Detroit and have lived near and worked in Baltimore for the last 8 years. What a freaking cesspool. I knew this place was bad but had no clue till I got here.
I’m involved in some ministry stuff that will crash and burn if I leave. I’m trying to develop a replacement but haven’t had much success yet.
Rushing to get it in RAT to RAT before they have to face a REAL Justice Dept.
The average Baltimorian has more to fear from his fellow citizens than of the police.
The plan all along.
Obama routinely meets with Black Lives Matter leadership. Black Lives Matter has generated protests and leads chants of “f the police” etc. They have received training from the DOJ. Obama has used Black Lives Matter to create and nurture an anti-police environment. He repeatedly legitimizes their acts. Black Lives Matter is used by Obama as street muscle to generate the dynamic necessary for his agenda, which is federalization of police.
In 2015 Obama’s “Task Force on 21st Century Policing” issued their Final Report (http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/TaskForce_FinalReport.pdf) and accompanying Implementation Guide (http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/Implementation_Guide.pdf)
On page 72 of the Final Report it is noted that Deray McKesson and Black Lives Matter, both participated.
In his written testimony (http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/submissions/McKesson_DeRay_Testimony.pdf) McKesson complains that “police brutality is not a coincidental aspect of American life, but that it is deeply woven into the fabric of American policing and that it falls heavily along the lines of race.” He says that he began protesting in Ferguson, Missouri, and that “I, like many others, have been tear gassed repeatedly, have had ‘non-lethal’ weapons pointed at me by officers, have been told that it was illegal to stand still on an American street, and have been pepper sprayed – all for engaging in peaceful protest.” (Who can forget the rioting, looting, and arson, in Ferguson?) He continues, “it is necessary for the Department of Justice, in conjunction with community organizations and local law enforcement, to develop virtual and in-person training modules whose use is mandatory by all police departments receiving federal funding that focuses on implicit bias” and “Twitter and other social media tools were pivotal to the protest community”
On page 28 of the Final Report it is noted that Linda Sarsour of the National Network for Arab American Communities participated. In her written testimony (http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/submissions/Sarsour_Linda_Testimony.pdf) she complains about “Islamophobia”. Sarsour states that police are perceived as biased, she recommends that police training curriculum include input from “community-based organizations” and “faith based leaders” and training be subject to ongoing monitoring by these groups. She also recommends that the DOJ establish a “civilian review board” composed of these groups “that can provide suggestions on what the DOJ mandates on those departments so they can be compliant with civil rights”
On page 20 of the Implementation Guide officer training is listed as a key tool to drive change. Training must address “implicit bias”, “engage the community in training” and “include community members as trainers”.
On page 16 of the Implementation Guide, “The final report and its recommendations can be an effective template for law enforcement organizations and communities to measure progress against a national, objective set of recommendations.” Also: Create a checklist using the recommendations, use the checklist in local government, law enforcement, and community meetings as a management tool to drive implementation, provide regular updates to the community and local government on progress being made on implementing specific recommendations
On page 23 of the Implementation Guide: State legislatures - Review and mandate requirements for police state training academies for basic recruit and in-service hours and content in light of the task force recommendations.
Additionally agencies are required to admit previous injustices. This “shaming” is psychological manipulation.
The Final Report list numerous recommendations including: federal training standards, numerous reports to be filed with federal government (police demographics, “community” demographics, arrestee demographics, incidents reports, for example).
Additional information regarding the Task Force: http://sai-dc.com/presidents-task-force-on-21st-century-policing/
A consent decree forces the police to comply with federal control.
Maybe Sessions will burn the agreement and p1$$ on it.
i’d be more impressed if the blamed the right people
There is no negotiation, the US Justice Department took over responsibility to hire and fire, and ROE for Baltimore. All it costs the US taxpayer is probably a 5% kick into the local budget and they get 100% of the control.
Precisely Obama’s goal, and to replace them with a far less accountable federal PD.
Obama? Who?
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