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US civil rights agency decries Trump administration's lax approach to police violence
Source: The Guardian
US civil rights agency decries Trump administration’s lax approach to police violence
Recommendations to ‘return to vigorous enforcement of constitutional policing’ came a day after leading health group declared police violence a ‘critical’ public health
Jamiles Lartey and Oliver Laughland
Thu 15 Nov 2018 23.01 GMT
America’s lead governmental civil rights body on Thursday issued a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration’s lax approach to police violence, recommending that the government “return to vigorous enforcement of constitutional policing”.
The recommendations, from the US Commission on Civil Rights (CCR), came just a day after members of the American Public Health Association (APHA) took the unprecedented step of officially recognizing police violence as a “critical” public health issue. The national organization’s membership includes more than 25,000 public health professionals.
Both bodies relied heavily on findings from the Guardian’s 2015-2016 special project The Counted, which tracked US fatalities at the hands of law enforcement, to reach their conclusions.
The Trump administration cooled federal oversight of troubled police departments under former attorney general Jeff Sessions who, until being fired earlier this month, aggressively pushed away from the kind of federal interventions his predecessors had embraced for investigating departments accused of widespread racism or excessive use of force.
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Recommendations to ‘return to vigorous enforcement of constitutional policing’ came a day after leading health group declared police violence a ‘critical’ public health
Jamiles Lartey and Oliver Laughland
Thu 15 Nov 2018 23.01 GMT
America’s lead governmental civil rights body on Thursday issued a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration’s lax approach to police violence, recommending that the government “return to vigorous enforcement of constitutional policing”.
The recommendations, from the US Commission on Civil Rights (CCR), came just a day after members of the American Public Health Association (APHA) took the unprecedented step of officially recognizing police violence as a “critical” public health issue. The national organization’s membership includes more than 25,000 public health professionals.
Both bodies relied heavily on findings from the Guardian’s 2015-2016 special project The Counted, which tracked US fatalities at the hands of law enforcement, to reach their conclusions.
The Trump administration cooled federal oversight of troubled police departments under former attorney general Jeff Sessions who, until being fired earlier this month, aggressively pushed away from the kind of federal interventions his predecessors had embraced for investigating departments accused of widespread racism or excessive use of force.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/15/us-civil-rights-agency-decries-trump-administration-lax-approach-police-violence