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    Here's Why Jeff Sessions' Parting Shot Is Worse Than You Thought

    Former attorney general’s directives make it easy to render federal action against abusive police departments ineffective.
    by Christy E. Lopez Nov 20, 2018 4 minutes

    On his last day as U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions issued a memo making it more difficult for Justice Department officials to obtain court-enforced agreements to stop civil rights abuses by local police departments. At least, that’s how his missive has been framed. It’s actually worse than that.

    Stymieing future consent decrees is bad enough, but Sessions’ memo will make it challenging to negotiate any effective police reform agreement going forward. It also makes it more difficult for the Justice Department’s civil rights lawyers to enforce agreements already in place.

    Consent decrees are legally binding agreements with local police departments found to have engaged in, where ProPublica reports that out of 34 police supervisors, 28 have been disciplined, 15 suspended, seven involved in fatal shootings and three convicted of criminal charges.

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