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The U.S. Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them.

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A Reuters review of the probes shows that the Justice Department under Biden has moved at a slower pace than it maintained in Democratic President Barack Obama’s first term.

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During Obama's first four years, the department opened 17 such investigations and reached negotiated settlements with four jurisdictions - Seattle; New Orleans; East Haven, Connecticut, and Portland, Oregon. During Obama’s second term, an additional eight investigations were opened and the department obtained 14 more agreements or court-ordered reforms.

Most involved a consent decree, a court-approved settlement that typically commits police departments to systemic reforms and often involves oversight by an independent monitor.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Merrick Garland couldn't be any more useless as AG.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

A truly shameful performance. The ghost of Judy Garland would have made a more effective Attorney General.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

He's been such a miserable failure that I've transitioned from being furious with Mcconnel for holding up Garland's Supreme Court nomination as an undemocratic abuse of process to being furious that he let this earth shattering incompetent go onto another job when his dead weight could have been carried by some of the competent justices.