Jeff Sessions: Consent decrees prevent ‘proactive policing that keeps our cities safe’

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned in a late Monday op-ed for USA Today that recent efforts to reform police practices have focused too much on the “small number of police who are bad actors, rather than on criminals.”

“[T]oo many people believe the solution is to impose consent decrees that discourage the proactive policing that keeps our cities safe,” he wrote.

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