Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren Unveils Bill To Boost Justice Department's Power To Hold Police Accountable

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

May 22, 2024, 02:52 PM EDT | Updated 5 hours ago


Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would give federal and state officials more power to hold police departments accused of bad behavior to account.

The Enhancing Oversight to End Discrimination in Policing Act, led by Warren and in the House by Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.), would strengthen the power of state attorneys general to launch investigations into police departments involved in civil rights violations if the Justice Department fails to act on them.

The bill would also task the Justice Department with looking beyond “traditional law enforcement mechanisms” when providing reforms to selective police departments such as mental health support, civilian oversight bodies, and community-based restorative justice programs, according to Warren’s office.

Warren had introduced a version of the bill in 2020. This newest version of the measure would also revitalize the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, granting an increase in funding to pursue civil rights investigations into police departments and other government offices accused of discriminatory practices.

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[walkingman]

1. A good move but in states like Texas our AG will never do anything to hold

police accountable.....ever. In fact one of the major problems we have is cops are often fired for bad behavior and then just go to the next county and hire on. It is a common practice. In Bastrop County, which adjoins Travis (Austin) the Sheriff was fired from the Texas Rangers and then elected by the county.

The same thing applies to lawyers - Sidney Powell, the Trump lackey, still has her law license.

There is no accountability of any kind in our justice system. Not anything new either. It is a bad joke.

[pecosbob]

2. DA's and prosecutors also use qualified immunity to escape punishment for flagrant violations of civil rights.

[Martin68]

3. Good. The US desperately needs to deal with law enforcement's deep seated issues.

Abuse of authority, racism, over-reliance on shooting before defusing situations, knee-jerk coverups of bad behavior and broken regulations by fellow officers, hiring disciplined officers from other jurisdictions, etc, etc.

[bahboo]

4. even though it's the right thing to do...

nothing will come of it, and the repubs will say it proves dems are anti-police. Such is life in America today...