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Policies of the memphis police department. this is something that community there has been asking for, something that the tyre nichols family has been looking for and theyve been asking for the doj, and its different from what were seeing announced there by merrick garland in terms of the pattern and practice and that could happen here, too. thats what doj is doing right now in memphis. theyre reviewing some of the policies. the other thing thats significant, we keep hearing about the specialize...

I feel like that the west end, which is my district, was a target for the viper unit. and that was a great question you asked. how do lmpd, how do the city recover from this, but my question is how do my constituents recover from this? >> so charles, chief, to that point you talk about developing trust with the community. i went back and you were police chief back in houston in 2012 you met with community activists about alleged police brutality. you met with them for a little over an hour, and ...

African-american neighborhoods of louisville for excessive force. the attorney general just listed a few things including the use of these protextural traffic stops and weve seen police departments across the country have been trying to avoid or abandon these practices because they lead to a lot of unintended, perhaps, consequences including confrontations with people who have no basis for being. so one of the things that the justice department found was that there was this unit called the viper...

Police officers already have difficult jobs. these inadequacies have made those jobs even harder and less safe. our report also describes unlawful law enforcement practices by lmpd patrol officers and by members of a specialized unit that was first called the viper unit. the unit was later rebranded as 9th mobile division and the criminal interdiction division. officers in this specialized unit frequently made pretextural traffic stops in black neighborhoods. federal and state courts have found ...

Here the justice department does have the ability to go in and sue and use the law if these negotiations break down. so it is a very powerful tool. your point is very well taken or the question is very well taken in that why cant -- its clearly -- its a bigger problem than just one police department, i think we can all stipulate to that, but what our government gives us is the ability only to handle it on a local case by case level. >> yeah. and, andy, merrick garland also specifically talked ab...

Sounds _ but this is a caveat, this all sounds good but local municipalities really— sounds good but local municipalities really are _ sounds good but local municipalities really are able to determine just how much— really are able to determine just how much of their budget will be spent _ how much of their budget will be spent on — how much of their budget will be spent on meaningfully executing these _ spent on meaningfully executing these reforms. so while i think a lot of— these refo...

We want you to start giving us some guidance and assistance on these specialized units. so as a result of that they are now going to start looking at specialized units all across the cou country. so there is a lot still obviously going on in the memphis investigation and now were seeing doj starting to look at what the memphis police there have been doing. there is a lot of similarities. you talk about this viper unit in louisville, same thing here, you had a car stop that was -- were not entire...

Taylor killing happens in 2020, its clear that hardly any of those changes were making a difference. for instance, they had this so is-called viper unit, which was an anti-crime unit, that they tried to rename, but essentially was still doing the same thing. they called it a mobile unit. and what the investigation found was that they were using things like pretext yule police stops, anyone who they thought might be just randomly making a wrong turn or something on a road, they would stop to try ...

Report. it goes to show that the louisville police department has been practicing and abusing the black community in that city for many, many years. according to the justice department, theyve known for years that the police department was targeting african americans for -- for pretextual police stops, trying to figure out ways to get them to pull over, and then finding additional cars that they could look into. they renamed a crime unit called the viper unit, but continued doing the same things...