The federal government has the power to investigate police departments with a history of discriminatory policing. But racist former AG Jeff Sessions took away @TheJusticeDept’s tools to force those police departments to reform. We can change that.
I’m introducing a bill to:
❌ Reverse the Trump admin’s limits on the use of consent decrees – and then expand them
❌ Empower state AGs to pursue their own investigations into discriminatory policing
❌ Triple DOJ's @CivilRights funding to allow it to pursue these cases
❌ Reverse the Trump admin’s limits on the use of consent decrees – and then expand them
❌ Empower state AGs to pursue their own investigations into discriminatory policing
❌ Triple DOJ's @CivilRights funding to allow it to pursue these cases
There is no easy fix for the systemic racism in our policing and justice systems. But if the Trump administration won’t do everything in its power to hold police departments accountable when officers use excessive force and kill Black Americans, then Congress should make them.
