Two federal lawyers arrive from Washington, D.C., today to start an unprecedented civil-rights investigation of the Cincinnati Police Division. Their presence signals the start of a process that, as in other cities, may result in a consent decree, a court-supervised list of changes the police division has to follow.
Well ... if it's been done in other cities, then it's not unprecedented, is it?
And had the Justice department responded the first two times Cincinnati requested a probe, maybe a few others would still be alive, and the riots would not have happened.
But still ... a civil rights probe under Ashcroft, of all people ... somehow, I suspect that many in Cincinnati will be unhappy with the results.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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