By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not enough evidence exists to bring civil rights charges against the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, investigators for the Justice Department said. The Washington Post reports that the Justice Department is reluctant to acknowledge the lack of evidence because of high tensions in the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called for “wholesale change” in the Ferguson Police Department, the Associated Press reports. Holder sad in a question-and-answer session with a newspaper at the Washington Ideas Forum that serious changes are needed. “I think it’s pretty clear that the need for wholesale change in that…
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com The days of profiling may be over for federal law enforcement, according to a report obtained by the Washington Post. The ban on profiling would apply to people based on their ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. One impact of the policy, for example, would be prohibiting surveillance of mosques without proof…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Congresswoman is calling for the Justice Department to study the racial impact of “Stand Your Ground” laws, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Cleveland, and a group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to AG Eric Holder to plead for more documentation and study of the laws that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com California prisons are violating the federal constitution by isolating people based on race after a riot, the Associated Press reports. When a riot breaks out, officers often lock up entire races of people to prevent further violence. But the Justice Department said in a recent court filing that the practice violates the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New FBI Director James Comey may have to make big cuts to the bureau’s budget because of a government shutdown and last year’s sequester. The ACLU has some ideas about “programs that deserve to get the axe, because they’re ineffective, undermine innocent Americans’ privacy and civil liberties, or simply offend American values.”…
Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald It’s been a war on justice, an assault on equal protection under the law. And a war on families, removing millions of fathers from millions of homes. And a war on money, spilling it like water. And a war on people of color, targeting them with drone strike efficiency. We…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former high-ranking Justice Department official accused some in the agency of using their positions to advocate race over law, the Washington Times reports. Ondray T. Harris, former director of the agency’s Community Relations Service, said he often delivered warnings to employees for advocating racial issues because of perceived biases. One…
