Washington Examiner- The Department of Justice said it was scaling back a program developed under the Obama administration aimed at advising and reforming police units around the country and now will only focus on helping cops fight crimes like gang activities and drug trafficking.
The department created the Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistance program in 2011, and the initiative allowed cities and police departments to voluntarily ask federal officials for assistance on any issue, such as use of force policies and police shootings.
The process was a broad, big-picture Justice Department analysis of a police department and its policies and practices, and how they affect the public. The Justice Department also held forums to hear from the public about police practices, and then released a set of recommendations designed to improve the police department after the two-year process.
Following the public release of the recommendations, the Justice Department would spend roughly 18 months helping the police department implement the recommendations, though they were not mandatory and not bound by court orders.
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