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Crime DOJ: Portland Cops Using Excessive Force
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM
The Portland Police Bureau has engaged in a "pattern and practice" of excessive use of force, particularly against mentally ill suspects, the U.S. Justice Department has concluded after a 14-month investigation.
I love the Obama Administration right now, particularly after bringing the hammer down on the New Orleans and Seattle police departments while suing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This is a non-obvious, savvy way to use the White House: Clean up years of misconduct in police departments, misconduct that for years has been swept under the rug, that has largely affected the poor and the non-white, that several cities wouldn't—or couldn't—remedy on their own. I can't see this happening under Romney.
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I wonder if Portland will get the soft treatment SPD did, or the stern treatment New Orleans and LA did. I hope Sam Adams doesn't try to skew the consent decree in his police department's favor the way McGinn did here.
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