Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) used a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to accuse the Biden administration of “handcuffing” law enforcement, leading to an increase in crime. .
Cotton, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said: Sent In a letter to Garland, he warned of the Justice Department's “last-minute takeover of more than a dozen police departments across the country using federal consent decrees.”
of washington post The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched “pattern-or-practice” investigations into 12 local law enforcement agencies “to expedite federal control of these agencies before President Biden leaves office,” the report said.
Cotton continued:
Like any human institution, no police department is without flaws, but federal consent decrees have a well-established and brutal record of increasing crime and endangering law-abiding citizens. Since 2012, violent crime has skyrocketed in seven of the 12 cities that have signed federal consent decrees. For example, violent crime jumped 61% in Los Angeles County, 36% in Albuquerque, 27% in Seattle, 20% in New Orleans, and 19 cities. percent in Maricopa County.
Your department is reportedly closest to reaching consent decrees with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville, where homicide numbers have already reached record numbers in recent years. The last thing these cities need is extremists like Kristen Clark who don't deserve to defund the police to micromanage their police departments for the next 10 years.
“Crime has increased during the Biden administration and your tenure as attorney general. We should not be handcuffing our police, we should be arresting, prosecuting and jailing criminals,” the Arkansas Republican said. insisted.
Sen. Tom Cotton concluded in a letter to Garland: I want these midnight lawsuits to be dropped and the new administration to get to work protecting Americans from violent criminals. ”
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