All reform agreements between justice department and local police forces – including Ferguson and Baltimore – to be reexamined,attorney general saysThe US attorney general on Monday ordered a nationwide review of all reform agreements with local police departments, placing a key fragment of Barack Obama’s legacy on criminal justice in jeopardy.
Jeff Sessions signalled in a memo filed to a federal court that “consent decrees” such as those struck in recent years with troubled departments in Ferguson, or Missouri,and Baltimore, Maryland, and could be scrapped or scaled down.
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Source: theguardian.com