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This is a problem, you're pulling too many people over, the racial disparities are alarming and you need stop it. to have the weight of the justice department in that decision made further the push for reforms. >> reporter: months later donald trump became president. jeff sessions became attorney general. the dismantling of police reform began across the country. >> law enforcement will be respected. you are the thin blue line, police are not the problem, the criminals are the problem. >> reporter: sessions expanded the use of private prisons. he called for harsher punishments for minor crimes...

Signed a last minute order limiting the use of a tool for criminal jus test reform called consent decrees. more than a dozen cities have it to improve police departments. the order from sessions prevents more decrees, it sends a signal the doj is not a partner for reform. ferguson, missouri is one of the places under a consent decree. trymaine lee went there to find out what's at stake for its red dents right now. >> this is the spot right here? >> yes, where my son lay for four and a half hours, took his last steps and his last breath. >> does it shock you when you think about just what came ...

On ferguson. finally, in 2016 the city reluctantly agreed to reforms, over sight, and independent monitoring. >> it was really important to have federal intervention, the department of justice kind of came in and was able to say, no, this is a problem, you're pulling too many people over, the racial disparities are alarming and you need stop it. to have the weight of the justice department in that decision made further the push for reforms. >> reporter: months later donald trump became president. jeff sessions became attorney general. the dismantling of police reform began across the country. ...

Oversight, and independent monitoring. >> it was really important to have federal intervention, the department of justice kind of came in and was able to say, no, this is a problem, you're pulling too many people over, the racial disparities are alarming and you need to stop it. and having kind of the weight of the justice department in that decision legitimized it and made further the push for reforms. >> reporter: months later donald trump became president. jeff sessions became attorney general. the dismantling of police reform began across the country. >> law enforcement will be respected. ...

Permanently take over the position, william barr. we're taking a look back at an important action by the last person in that office, jeff sessions, on his final days of being attorney general, jeff sessions signed a last minute order limiting the use of a tool for cripple reform called consent decrees. more than a dozen cities have it to improve police departments. the order from sessions prevents more concept decrees it also sent a signal the doj is not a partner for reform. ferguson, missouri, is one of the places under a consent decree. trymaine lee went there to find out what's at stake fo...