Hillary Clinton Says She Would Beef Up Federal Oversight Of Police

Posted by | November 6, 2015 15:00 | Filed under: Andrew Bradford Contributors Politics

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If elected President in 2016, Hillary Clinton would seek to expand the federal government’s ability to investigate police departments across the United States, according to a high-ranking aide in the Clinton camp.

Clinton’s plan would include doubling the funding for the Justice Department’s collaborative reform program which works with police departments to implement change, expanding the Civil Rights Division that investigates law enforcement agencies, and also increasing funds used to train officers on the federal, state, and local level….READ MORE at LiberalAmerica

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8 responses to Hillary Clinton Says She Would Beef Up Federal Oversight Of Police

  1. tracey marie November 6th, 2015 at 16:20

    great Idea.

    • Hirightnow November 6th, 2015 at 16:52

      I’m torn between the ideal of a “national” police force (Not beholden to local politics), and the system we have now (not beholden to national politics)…
      Either way, the people of this country are, in the end, “beholden”.
      meh.
      Whatchya gonna do?

      • amersham46 November 6th, 2015 at 18:45

        outsource it to some third world country ,

        • Hirightnow November 6th, 2015 at 19:42

          “Stop in the name of the law, I am asking you! Please to be dropping the AK-47 that you now hold! I am saying now that this is your final warning available to you!”
          (Followed by the usual no-nonsense Sikh response…)
          Yeah…
          It could work.

          • Hirightnow November 6th, 2015 at 19:49

            And yes, that was racist, I guess…

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    • anothertoothpick November 6th, 2015 at 20:01

      Tracey???? Are we going to have an open thread on the Rachael Maddow forum tonight?

  2. maggie November 7th, 2015 at 20:55

    Right On HRC….it’s about time…doesn’t everyone know they deserve it because they refuse to clean up their act?

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