To a degree, yes-
He said the expenses for cities under this arrangement add up quickly. Departments make policy changes, staffing changes, and do all of that under the watchful eye of a federal monitoring team which include attorneys and academics. Its a multiyear process
The next steps in the Ferguson DOJ case
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.and you must not be thinking clearly to believe they wouldn't realize even more scrutiny would be put on anything pertaining to do with the the Brown case. In Cincinnati, when they were put under such a program, here is what happened there-
"When I was in Cincinnati, they had a huge uptick in crime after the DOJ announced their investigation, because — basically — the police department shut down and they stopped working," he said. "They stopped doing proactive things. They had to say to themselves, 'Do I really need to pull over this car, and then take the chance that I'm going to get tagged with some sort of discriminatory practice that the DOJ will not like?'"
"It's just as easy for them to let them go," he continued. "Don't even bother with it. Just respond to your radio calls and do the very minimum you have to do. That's what we've seen in these situations."
While under doj investigation and oversight?
What scrutiny? If they say you had drugs on you and say here is what we recovered, who is going to prove they are lying?
Is he claiming that they planted drugs on him? If he's not, why would anyone else think that's what happened?
They havent actually filed any charges yet. There has been no statement from Dorian per his attorneys advice until then. Why would someone think this would happen? Because they've seen cops do this millions of times to other people most likely. I know I've seen it.
Does the DOJ have some special ability to see things when they are not there?