Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) used a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to accuse the Biden administration of “handcuffing” law enforcement, leading to higher crime.
Cotton, the Senate Republican Conference chair, sent his missive to Garland, sounding the alarm about the Justice Department’s “last-minute takeover of a dozen police departments across the country using federal consent decrees.”
The Washington Post has reported the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened “pattern or practice” investigations into 12 local law-enforcement agencies in a “rush to gain federal control of these agencies before President Biden leaves office.”
Cotton continued:
No police department—like any human institution—is without flaw, but federal consent decrees have a well-established and atrocious record of increasing crime and endangering law-abiding citizens. Violent crime has surged
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