With violent crime surging in Chicago, the Trump administration rejects the idea of police restraint. During the campaign, Donald Trump said the answer is for cops here to be “very much tougher.” In his recent address to Congress, he decried violence in Chicago and promised to “work with — not against, not against — the men and women of law enforcement.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions agrees that the cops are always right. Last year, the Obama Department of Justice published a damning report on the Chicago Police Department, which concluded that its officers “engage in a pattern or practice of using force, including deadly force, that is unreasonable,” as well as unconstitutional, creating unnecessary danger to themselves and innocent bystanders.
Asked last month whether he would pursue reforms in response to the abuses and errors cited in the report, Sessions said he hadn’t read it. He also said the increase in crime has occurred because “we’ve undermined the respect for our police and made, oftentimes, their job more difficult.” Steve Chapman worries about the consequences.
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