Federal Intervention in Police Departments to Return Under Biden

Route Fifty: Activists pushing to reshape police departments will soon have a new tool at their disposal—or rather, an old tool that’s expected to get new life under President-elect Joe Biden.

Biden plans to revamp federal “pattern and practice” investigations into police departments—and to a lesser extent prisons and prosecutor’s offices—to root out systemic misconduct and biases. The practice was frequently deployed by former President Obama’s Justice Department, but ended during the Trump administration.

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