NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. attorney general on Tuesday will announce sweeping reforms of New Orleans's long-troubled police department.
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Last year, the Justice Department issued a scathing report that said New Orleans police officers have often used deadly force without justification, repeatedly made unconstitutional arrests and engaged in racial profiling.
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The officers were sentenced to prison terms of up to 65 years. Five others pleaded guilty to engaging in a cover-up plot that included a planted gun, phony witnesses and fabricated reports.
This is proof-positive that law-enforcement in America is inundated with corruption to the point that it is not only rampant, but systematic. This is not a matter of good cop vs. bad cop. This is a matter of widespread abuse of power to the level of fascist totalitarianism. There are no "good cops" while they turn a blind eye to, and serve alongside this scourge.
Sadly, this "scathing" report by the Attorney General will not have a substantive impact in New Orleans, nor does it address the rampant abuses of authority nationwide.
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