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Numerous cities have been under consent decrees but brutality continues
Over the last several years a number of police
departments with histories of using lethal force against oppressed
peoples have been subjected to civil rights investigations and consent
decrees with the Justice Department.
Nonetheless, violence by the police against the people has
continued and even worsened. The recent public slayings of Eric Garner,
Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and others have illustrated clearly that the
United States government is incapable of reining in local
law-enforcement agencies.
In fact the escalation in the militarization of the police
is being facilitated by the Department of Defense which is supplying
lethal weapons, body gear, and armored vehicles to cities throughout the
country.
When the Obama administration called for the use of cameras
by police officers during a summit at the White House on Dec. 1 it was
already superfluous. That same week a grand jury in New York decided not
to indict even one police officer under investigation in the choking
death of African American Eric Garner in Staten Island.
The killing of Eric Garner was videotaped and yet the police
involved in the fatal attack–as well the emergency medical technicians
who refused to provide life-saving assistance to Garner—were not
indicted or disciplined by the prosecutor’s office or the City of New
York. The current Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, who was framed as a
liberal and progressive during his campaign in 2013, appointed William
J. Bratton, one of the architects of the “stop and frisk” and “broken
windows” theory of policing as the chief law-enforcement commander.
Detroit Was Under Two Federal Consent Decrees for 11 Years
The City of Detroit is a clear example of the systematic
failure of the Justice Department and the federal courts to eliminate
police misconduct and brutality. Since the Great Migration of African
Americans and the rise of the labor movement during the 20th century,
the history of police suppression of the people has become well
enshrined in the political fabric of the Motor City.
In July 1967 amid
deteriorating conditions involving residential segregation,
institutional racism and police brutality, the masses of African
Americans rose up in the largest urban rebellion in the history of the
U.S. up until that time. After the rebellion police repression escalated
with the expansion of the tactical mobile units and eventually the
dreaded decoy unit known as STRESS (Stop the Robberies Enjoy Safe
Streets), which was responsible for the police killings of 33 people
during 1971-73.
Beginning in 2000, amid a series of cop killings of
civilians, the Justice Department Civil Rights Division began a three
year investigation. In 2003, the Justice Department entered into a
consent judgment with Detroit leading to 11 years of monitoring by
several private firms overseen by a federal judge. These actions did not
lead to an immediate decline in police violence.
The police killing of civilians continued and even
intensified while the federal monitoring was taking place. Tens of
millions of local tax dollars were turned over to private monitors who
abused the funds without recommending the termination or prosecution of
any of the officers who were carrying out these killings and other acts
of brutality.
On May 16, 2010, a police raid at the wrong address
resulted in the shooting death of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones on the
city’s eastside. By this time the City of Detroit had been under two
federal consent decrees for seven years involving the use of lethal
force and the deplorable conditions existing in the lock-ups.
It was only due to public pressure that the white cop,
Joseph Weekley, was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and
reckless discharge of a firearm. However, after two trials there has
been no conviction of Weekly who remains free and on the City of Detroit
payroll.
The discharge from the consent decrees was only able to
take place under emergency management and forced bankruptcy during 2014.
A much talked about Board of Police Commissioners has been stripped of
the limited authority that it had since its creation under the City
Charter of 1974 enacted at the same time as the first African American
Mayor Coleman A. Young came into office. The Commission largely served
as a venue for the filing of complaints about police misconduct where
virtually no disciplinary actions were taken.
Only Mass Struggle and Revolutionary Organization Can End Police Terrorism
Other cities such as Cleveland are now under yet another of
such consent decrees. Cleveland had been under federal monitoring
before and even with the announcement of the new consent judgment by
Attorney General Eric Holder, no police have been arrested or indicted
in the recent killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was playing with a
toy gun in a public park when he was gunned down by the police.
Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and numerous
municipalities have experienced similar situations of federal
involvement which have not halted the misconduct and brutality.
Objectively through its policies, the White House, the Pentagon along
with the courts from the federal level down to the local judicial
systems, categorically defend police officers in situations related to
violence against African Americans, Latinos and others.
It has only been the
rebellions and mass demonstrations that have pushed the question of
police violence against the people to the forefront of political
discussions inside the U.S. If people had not gone out and militantly
demonstrated against the blatant killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri, these issues would not have even been acknowledged by the
government and the corporate media.
Police agencies operating under the U.S. capitalist system
function exclusively on behalf of the corporations and the repressive
state. In order to eliminate police misconduct and brutality it is
necessary to transform the state apparatus through the transfer of
wealth from the ruling class to the workers and the oppressed.
This can only be carried out as a result of the seizure of
political power by the majority within society. Decades of “reforms”
through “training programs” and federal investigations have not changed
the situation in the least.
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