The Justice Department has been investigating widespread civil rights violations within Police departments across the country. The worst cases that have been exposed so far took place in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In the cases I ve seen it is not a racial problem. It s a police problem.
Police brutality is color-blind.
But who knows, maybe they will surprise us with an indictment soon. Arguements against federal intervention in local law enforcement include the fact that the federal government's use of excessive force in situations like Waco, the Elian Gonzalez seizure and Ruby Ridge have yet to be justified. The federal government is just as guilty of unjustified violence as some local law enforcement agenices, and therefore have no right to monitor state and county police departments. Congress attempts to launch investigations into police brutality and use of excessive force, but the answers never come. Due to Clinton's Crime Bill, the federal government now has the power to step in on local law enforcement.