{"id":105754,"date":"2020-10-03T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105754"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T22:59:11","slug":"judge-halts-law-enforcement-commissions-report-because-its-made-up-of-law-enforcement-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105754","title":{"rendered":"Judge halts law enforcement commission’s report because it’s made up of law enforcement experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s another one of those stories that sounds like it’s out of The Onion or The Babylon Bee, but it’s real.<\/p>\n

A federal judge’s ruling on Thursday stopped next month’s expected release of a report from a presidential commission created to study American law enforcement. Judge John Bates ruled that the commission, comprised solely of current and former law enforcement officials, lacked the diversity necessary to address issues plaguing policing.<\/p>\n

None of the 18 commissioners appointed to “study a broad range of issues regarding law enforcement and the criminal justice system,” and then make recommendations to the president through the report, have any background in “criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization,” Bates noted in his decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course race has everything to do with it.<\/p>\n

“Especially in 2020,” Bates wrote, “when racial justice and civil rights issues involving law enforcement have erupted across the nation, one may legitimately question whether it is sound policy to have a group with little diversity of experience examine, behind closed doors, the sensitive issues facing law enforcement and the criminal justice system in America today.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more at the source; CBS News<\/a>\u00a0I recommend having your blood pressure pills at the ready.<\/p>\n

In a refreshing change of pace, Judge Bates is a G.W. Bush appointee instead of the usual Obama legal geniuses behind such decisions. When did “community organizer” really become a legitimate thing? Used to be that was a well understood euphemism for useless neighborhood pain in the ass. I guess when you elect one to the Senate and then the White House it gives some credibility to the made up “job.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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