The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/u-s-department-of-justice/)
Attorney General William Barr defends the expansion of Operation Legend, saying it’s targeting cities struggling with violent crime. Some Democrats question whether the move is a stunt to help the president’s reelection.
The Attorney General tried to use data to minimize the racial disparities in killings of civilians by police. The New York Times calls several of his statements misleading.
In prepared remarks scheduled for delivery Tuesday at the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr also denied that police forces are afflicted by systemic racism and said violent police protesters are not making a “legitimate call for reform.”
Attorney General William Barr is due to appear on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. He is likely to be questioned about charges that he has acted to favor President Donald Trump’s friends.
The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice concluded its series of hearings, hearing from experts on policing, prosecution, and the Parkland, Fl., school shooting.
Attorney General William Barr mistakenly said the FBI had arrested 200 people in two weeks in a Kansas City anticrime drive. In fact, the total goes back to last December and includes local arrests.
Attorney General William Barr announced “Operation Legend,” where hundreds of federal law enforcement officers will put boots on the ground to support local law enforcement in investigations. This news follows the release of Kansas City’s record-breaking violent crime data detailing that the city just passed 100 murders in 2020.
The investigation is the only “pattern-or-practice” probe of a local police department during the Trump administration, compared with 25 in the Obama presidency.
Prosecutors who failed to turn over favorable evidence to a defendant told a judge they didn’t act in bad faith, despite internal emails in which they discussed whether they might try to “bury” a document in a stack of other papers.
Most cases appear to be instances of people capitalizing on the chaos rather than those engaging in violence orchestrated by ideological groups.