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This statute was created to give the department of justice, the attorney general, the authority to investigate unconstitutional policing, misconduct by law enforcement and to sue local police departments for those constitutional violations and then to engage in consent decrees to resolve the disputes. this is a legal obligation. this is not about the policy of mr. trump, the president, or the opinion about crime fighting by attorney general sessions. the statute, 42 usc 14141, is the law enforcement misconduct statute. that's the focus. it's not focussed on illegal immigration or drug traffick...

Misconduct. in fact, it's called the law enforcement misconduct statute. it is 42 usc 14141. that is the statute that authorized department of justice to investigate the baltimore city police department, for example, and to enter into a consent decree with that police department to transform and to reform unconstitutional policing practices. so jeff sessions' view about how local law enforcement should proceed and his view about the morale of police departments and so forth is quite apart from what his statutory obligation is under that statute, to prosecute law officer and law enforcement mis...

A lawsuit and has resources it gives out to the cops program and deals on a regular basis with law enforcement agencies so it needs to use the learning of the resources that it hands out and the relationships that it developed to try to get police departments to voluntarily adopt the kinds of practices that have come out of the 14141 experience, and that's the real challenge now, because as the attorney general said we're not going to litigate ourselves out of the situation that we're in. it's going to take a much broader and more creative effort. it's going to take more resources. >> councilm...

Professor rat at jon /* /* -- professor at john j. the first thing that you teach police officers when they arrive upon a scene of a report of man with a gun, in this instance teenager with a gun. when you pull up your police car, you get to a position of cover, behind the police car. you yell clear and loud commands. police, freeze. don't move. but not drop your gun. i can't think of any explanation for what they could give for what happened in cleveland. so what ben crump told you is exactly what cleveland should do. they should say we admit this was wrong, we will pay money damages. we will...

When you pull up your police officer, you get to a position of cover, behind the police car. you yell clear and loud commands. police, freeze. don't move. but not drop your gun. i can't think of any explanation for what they could give for what happened in cleveland. what ben crump said is this is what i they should do. they should say we admit this was wrong, we will pay money damages. we will try to cooperate with those that came in in the department of justice in december. the justice department issued a 14141. a notification of practices that they did not have adequate training, they were ...