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Hoodafan

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I may owe you an apology because until this post I didn't realize Sessions


had made a statement to that effect. But if this is the statement you're talking about, I'm certainly not reading that to mean he's not a proponent of police investigations, nor that he thinks they're above investigations. Just that justice should be helping them be more effective, rather than an adversary that can hinder their effectiveness.


"We need, so far as we can, to help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness. And I'm afraid we've done some of that," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

"So we're going to try to pull back on this," he told a meeting of the nation's state attorneys general in Washington.

Sessions said such a move would not be "wrong or insensitive to civil rights or human rights." Instead, he said people in poor and minority communities must feel free from the threat of violent crime, which will require more effective policing with help from the federal government.

(In response to this post by walkthecorner)

Posted: 04/14/2017 at 4:27PM



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