NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Justice Department official sought to reassure longtime critics of New Orleans police that a new federally backed plan to overhaul the police department will indeed reduce and eliminate decades of racial discrimination, brutality and questionable use of force.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin on Wednesday addressed a small group of community activists a day after the court-supervised agreement between the city and the Justice Department was announced.
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