So now the Feds are telling us lies
So apparently the Justice Department is now in the business of telling big American cities how horrible they are.
Today, the Department of Justice sent the attached letters to nine jurisdictions which were identified in a May 2016 report by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General as having laws that potentially violate 8 U.S.C. § 1373.
Additionally, many of these jurisdictions are also crumbling under the weight of illegal immigration and violent crime. The number of murders in Chicago has skyrocketed, rising more than 50 percent from the 2015 levels. New York City continues to see gang murder after gang murder, the predictable consequence of the city’s “soft on crime” stance.
That sounds more like Trump on Twitter than like a normal DOJ.
Maggie Haberman of the Times tweeted a statement by the New York Police Commissioner:
The Commissioner tweeted 23 minutes ago:
Today's @TheJusticeDept statement is unbelievably disrespectful to the hardworking #NYPD cops who fight crime and keep people safe everyday. pic.twitter.com/5F9EfvddgF
— Commissioner O'Neill (@NYPDONeill) April 21, 2017
Crime is down, murders are down, but the DOJ sees fit to put out a press release saying they’re up, and implying that it’s because IMMIGRANTS.
That’s both ugly and alarming.
What, this government lying to the public? Never. /s
I guarantee that this can be traced back to the Toddler.
I prefer a Sessions who offends and alienates local law enforcement over a Sessions who has their admiration and appreciation. Hopefully he shapes up to be as bad as Trump is at making friends and influencing people. Incompetence and boorishness might go some ways toward hampering his agenda.
Would it be normal for the DOJ to comment critically (and setting aside the question of accuracy) on municipal policing practices?
And yes, the language employed sounds very much like Trump’s grade-school-level snark.
It would. The Obama DOJ commented on Ferguson for instance as well as similar messes. It also investigated various police departments, but doing that always involves making press statements.