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Training cops to avoid excessive use-of-force is only part of the challenge. The hardest part is learning a different mindset about policing—in the face of society expectations and peer pressure, experts and senior officers tell TCR.
At its annual meeting last week, the American Medical Association House of Delegates backed a sweeping set of actions aimed at reducing the nation’s toll from gun violence. The association called on policymakers to seek “common ground.” It was the second major group, following the nation’s top think tank on policing, to weigh in on the issue.
Seven mayors from western states where marijuana has been legalized say it is time for the federal government to catch up with a trend they say will inevitably lead to lawful availability of weed nationwide.
Concerns about security at New York City hotels used to shelter homeless families are rising after a report documents criminal activity at more than half the hotels last year. The city now houses more than 30 percent of the nation’s homeless families.
President Trump may give a posthumous pardon to boxing great Muhammad Ali, who was convicted of draft evasion. Trump is “looking at literally thousands of names” of other potential people to pardon.
Jeanine Pirro, hostess of Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” would like to succeed Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
The Trump administration put its search for the Justice Department’s No. 3 official, the Associate Attorney General, on the back burner after failing to persuade several candidates to take the challenging position. The nominees to head the criminal and civil rights divisions still await a Senate vote.
Some critics say the Justice Department is too slow to make recommendations on pardons. “The issue is whether the president will still apply standards and meritocracy,” says one advocate after President Trump pardons conservative Dinesh D’Souza.
President Trump’s lawyers told special counsel Robert Mueller that a president legally can’t be charged with obstruction of justice. Former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal called that theory a “ludicrous” one that “died with King George III.”
The president pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza and said he might grant clemency to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart because of supposedly unfair treatment in the justice system. More than 10,000 other clemency requests are pending.