Sessions Takes Aim at Obama-Era Police Reforms

The phrase "Obama era police reforms" is a sick joke anyway as anyone that has been part of efforts at accountability well knows.  Ask Black Lives Matter if platitudes are effective policy even as they are the stock and trade of  New Democrats since Bill Clinton including Obama.  Reports indicate that extra judicial shootings and cover ups continue unabated the January and February of this year despite spotlights shone on Baltimore and Ferguson.



Sessions said “Local control and local accountability are necessary for effective local policing,” the memo read. “It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies."  This could just as well been written about the Voting Rights act and is an obvious republican plank.  If Sessions had not done this the Supreme court would have anyway.

I of course completely disagree that this is Federal over-reach.  Civil rights are what the constitution is for and we certainly have a right to not be shot by bad cops.  I do fear what comes next.  Less accountability, more militarism and authoritarianism is clearly where we are going, Sessions will support that and should be resisted.

Sessions Takes Aim at Obama-Era Police Reforms: