Page 46 - Consent Decrees News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Few bad apples, something we've heard before. we he's a proponent of that view. he has been skeptical about consent decrees for many years, not just recently. but what we heard from him at this hearing makes me quite certain that senator sessions, if he is confirmed, will be taking a very different tack on policing reform. i do not expect pattern and practice investigations, i do not expect consent decree. i hope he will continue work of the cops office that works on retraining police departments but that remains to be seen. i was not encouraged by what i heard from his lips yesterday and what...

>> well, i think you have to combine it with even more testimony yesterday, the fact he was endorsed by the fraternal order of police, there was a phalanx of law enforcement there to support him yesterday and the head of the fraternal order of police testified on his behalf today and they all essentially said the same thing, and what they said and what i heard out of the mouth of senator sessions is that he intends to be a champion of local police, that he does not believe the federal government through the department of justice should be intruding in local policing matters. he said specifical...

>> and so they often feel forced to agree to a consent decree, just to remove that stigma. and sometimes there are difficulties there. so i just think we need to be careful and respectful. >> i understand that. but as to the consent decrees that were negotiated with both parties in full faith to do what's appropriate that you would leave those in tact unless there are some extraordinary circumstances. of course, going forward as attorney general, you can enter into whatever consent decrees you deem appropriately -- appropriate. so my question really is the existing consent decrees which took a...

Exercise of religion and i believe americans overwhelmingly honor that and should continue to honor it and it would include muslims for sure and i don't believe they should be treated differently fundamentally. >> thank you. >> should not be treated differently. >> in addition to the freedom of religion provisions, perhaps there will be some equal protection constitutional problems, possibly some procedural due process constitutional problems with that kind of registry requirement. turning to consent decrees, there are more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the united states. america's p...

Note on the consent decrees or the language senator hirono quoted, i believe was in a booklet of which i simply wrote the forward on. i don't believe that was my language. consent decrees have been criticized in a number of areas, but with regard to the disabilities community and the police departments, i guess you're asking about, i'm not familiar with how they've worked out in the disabilities arena, but with regard to police departments, i think it's a good thing that a police department might call on federal investigators and a team to work with their police department to identify any prob...