Justice Department investigates the police force
It's a modern article of American faith: Metropolitan police departments have a history of conflict with their cities' minority citizens, conflicts that suggest police agencies trade evenhanded justice for heavy-handed contact with the public. In the recent past, police departments in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans have been taken to task for excessive force and have taken actions to correct the problem.
But in the last two years, according to the U.S. Justice Department, allegations of wrongdoing by police departments across the country have mushroomed to unprecedented levels. According to Thomas Perez, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, at least 17 U.S. police departments are under investigation for various civil rights violations, "more than at any time in the division's history," Perez said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September.
A very recent example, in one of America's most storied precincts of liberalism and tolerance, symbolizes both the breadth of the problem as a national issue and the challenges facing its correction. ...
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WHY DOES ST.CLAIR COUNTY INVESTIGATOR OWEN WALTON THREATEN PEOPLE THAT HE WILL HAVE THEM JAILED IF THEY DON'T SIGN COMPLAINTS AGAINST TEENAGERS. HE USES THESE COMPLAINTS TO PERSUE CHARGES AGAINST OTHER KIDS FOR SEX CRIMES AND ACTS LIKE HE IS GOD IN DICTATEING THE LAW. SOME PLEASE MAKE HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS MISUSE OF OR LEGAL SYSTEM. HE DOES THIS OVER AND OVER WITH ALL HIS SO-CALLED CASES. THIS IS ABUSE OF POWER SO MANY PEOPLE THINK THIS IS WRONG. WHEN DID THE GOVERMENT DECIDE THEY WERE IN CHARGE OF MATTERS OF THE HEART? CAN THIS BE JUST ONE OF MANY BAD COPS TRY TO GAIN FROM OTHERS INJUSTICE.
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