Sessions Indicates Justice Dept Will Stop Monitoring Troubled Police Agencies

nytimes.com

9 points·DiabloD3··5 comments

Here's the quote the headline appears to be about:

“We need, so far as we can, in my view, help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness,” Mr. Sessions said in remarks to the National Association of Attorneys General. “And I’m afraid we’ve done some of that. So we’re going to try to pull back on this, and I don’t think it’s wrong or mean or insensitive to civil rights or human rights.”

This post should get a reward for how relevant it is to HN.

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You seem to be under a mistaken impression of what this site is about. HN exists for the gratification of intellectual curiosity. That's not the same thing as following the political latest, critical though the issues of the day may be. Since HN can't be both kinds of site, this is an important distinction.

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I don't understand how that applies to a minor political disagreement on which governmental level a police department should operate on.

Maybe I misunderstood this article as I'm not American, but I really couldn't see how this had anything to do with 'intellectual curiosity'. Can you explain it?

Not a minor political disagreement at all. The effort that's being curtailed is the primary effort in response to police killings of minorities--the primary effort to reform said police departments. Sessions is saying, in effect, the problem isn't the police, it's the communities themselves. This is the same tired conservative rhetoric that got us into the situation of minorities regularly being killed by police.

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