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Communities across the nation whose police departments are under federal consent decrees, yet there are 40 states who have tried in just the last five years to push back the right to vote by making it more difficult for voter i.d., restrictions. and yet a supreme court that knocked out a important provision of the voting rights act that people fought and died for 50 years ago. so it is a contradiction of terms but this generation of americans should have courage and inspiration and learn that justice has to be protected, civil rights and voting rights and democracy have to be defended and at e...

15 -- don't hold me to the number at this point -- cities are currently under consent decrees. that means these are cities whose police departments have been found to have engaged in systematic pattern and practice constitutional violations. number two, the justice department has brought many many cases across the nation against individual police officers for violating the constitutional rights of citizens. so i don't think it's isolated at all. but it's not mere conjecture. it's really what the evidence shows in terms of the work of the justice department over the last six years that has not ...

We have seen the federal government demand and get progress on major racialized issues like immigration, affirmative action and others. consent decrees have been critical to "forcing polices to jet jettison -- now if more than 20 major police departments have had to come under federal monitoring then we know we have a massive nationwide policing problem, but we also have a federal government that's fighting to make change. it's heartbreaking to see so many examples of racist policing and heartbreaking knowing that we still need the federal government to combat racism, but police officers are g...

It just doesn't make sense. i think when you see these sorts of consent decrees which is what that would be this agreement between the department of justice and a city or municipality you rarely see the leadership remain the same. think about the lapd think about what happened in detroit. >> even when you hear from tom jackson himself, he seemed to be almost in denial about what was happening. >> his head was in the sand. >> right there in front of his face. >> you think the attorney general made it very clear that we will see concrete action. i am certainly seeing twitter and social media peo...

Departments that are under consent decrees which means they have either admitted or the justice department has found patterns of violations of civil rights. so that alone indicates that this is not, if you will, an isolated incident. the law certainly gives the justice department the power to review not only individual complaints but potential comprehensive violations if you will systematic violations into departments around the country. there's ample evidence that this is not isolated but what i hope is that this conversation and this is where the urban league's ten-point plan that we not onl...