Trump administration found a perverted way to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s terrible death on May 25, 2020. Last week, it was announced withdrawing the court order To change Minneapolis police department, as well as many other cities. Harmeet K. Dhillon, the head of the Trump Justice Department Rights Rights Rights, explained that he intended mostly, if not all police departments in the United States.
Not as if the problems of police abuse and racist drop declined. Statistics continue to show that’s black and Linino People are more likely to stop the police then white people for the same behavior, most likely to be arrested and more subjected to police violence.
George Floyd kills leads to protests In all 50 states Against police abuses. The legislation for polling polishing is introduced by Congress and passed to the House of Representatives, only blocked in the Senate. Some states and local governments adopt reforms, but impetus for renewal shortly disappears.
It’s been a long time. Profile incidents are like beating Rodney King in Los Angeles, and a newer killing of Breonna Taylor’s police in Louisville, KY. The simple reality is that the political process does not change the policing. Politicians find it more useful “hard to crime” than to take powerful police unions.
However, what has proven an effective tool for police reform is the Federal Factem for the court ordered by Minneapolis reforms. The law adopted in 1994, allowing the US Department of Justice in police departments and began local and state governments for removal of the standard or practice “in the practice of non-constitutional violations.
This authority is used in institute reforms of many City police departments, including Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Newsark.
In most cases the cities live instead of replacement, and a consent order – a court ordered and arrived at the court implemented. There is usually a monitor designated to handle reforms. The federal court can impose state or local government sentences if it does not meet the terms of the agreement.
In LA, the JUSTICE department was investigated and planned to accuse the Police Department in Los Angeles in Rampart ScandalIn 2000, where police officials planted evidence of the innocent people and lied to court to obtain convictions. In June 2001, the city agreed to a consent order More than 100 pages long.
The command has affected almost every aspect of los angeles poling and attached many excess reforms. It created databases to keep track of, among other things, police used the police and discipline. It requires police to record information about each stop. It changes how powerful investigations are used. It changed control of anti-gang units; This is an anti-gang unit at the rampart division that brings the scandal. It also requires regular audits in many aspects of policing. A monitor was appointed and for 12 years, until 2013, a federal judge in charge of implementation.
The Harvard Kennedy School is produced a detailed study In the process and know that permission permission is more changing to replacing Los Angeles. Serious use of force incidents, eg, reduced by 15% while the consent order is in effect.
LA is usually the experience: Authorization orders are likely to work on the police departments. art Study in 2017 Supports their use after examining 23 police departments under orders, found that “civil rights against departments falling from 23 per cent after a federal intervention.” Another study It is known that permission of orders to take care of a monitor causing a 29% reduction in civilian deaths in the hands of the police.
In Minneapolis, the city and what disprised the Biden Justice Department was just known in January, after a multiyeare federal investigation found widespread city abuses. By canceling the approval process, the Trump administration indicates that it does not use its authority in such situations.
An important tool for police reform will disappear. Increasing violation of police rights and police violence, especially against individual colors, as inevitable.
During Vietnam forests, Vemont Sen. George Aiken is recalled that the United States should express victory and withdrawal. The Trump administration follows the playbook when it comes to police mistakes, and the odds are certainly sad.
Erwin Chemerinsky,, Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law, a voice that provides voices contributing to the author.
