The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother.
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DOJ Investigation of Ville Platte Police Department and Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office