Trump DoJ ends Obama-era police accountability program

There truly is nothing good that happened under the Obama administration that Trump won’t rush to destroy, especially if he thinks it’ll burnish his “pro-police” cred:

The Department of Justice announced Friday that it’s rolling back an Obama-era program created to help improve trust between police agencies and the communities they serve.

The department said it’s making significant changes to an office that investigated and issued public reports about problems it found in individual police departments.

DOJ said the changes to the program “will return control to the public safety personnel sworn to protect their communities and focus on providing real-time technical assistance to best address the identified needs of requesting agencies to reduce violent crime.”

The move falls in line with Sessions' tough-on-crime policies and President Trump's pro-police administration.

There’s a perverse irony to people who call themselves “tough on crime”, considering how their policies are consistently shown to worsen crime rates and deteriorate law enforcement’s relationships with the communities they serve. Sessions and Trump absolutely fit that pattern, the former because he’s a dinosaur and the latter because he’s too stupid and ignorant to know any better.

(via Joe.My.God.)