Resource: How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses

By: Ian MacDougall

August 27, 2018

www.propublica.org

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ville-platte-louisiana-police-consent-decree-trump-justice-department