City of Detroit: We've cleaned up abuses by police, so ease up on federal oversight

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Source: Detroit Free Press

A decade after unconstitutional conduct landed the Detroit Police Department under two consent decrees, the city is asking that the federal monitor suspend oversight on use of force and witness detention provisions that the department has been compliant with for two years.

In a motion filed in U.S. District Court, attorney Allan Charlton wrote that the department now is “vastly improved” from 10 years ago.

The city entered into two consent decrees with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2003, after police were accused of engaging in unconstitutional use of force, arrest and detention practices.

The motion comes after Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. issued an order Thursday calling for the federal monitor to increase the frequency of his visits to Detroit because the city is non-compliant with 12% of the requirements in the use of force consent judgment.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20131223/NEWS01/312230079/Detroit-police-consent-decree-monitoring

[PDJane]

1. Sigh. No. Don't do that.

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2. Nope -- Keep it going....

As the "New" administration of Mike Duggan has the the same faces for the most part of past administrations, including the famous former felony Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Got a feeling problems over the next four years will make Kwame et. al. look like a game of Monopoly, at best.