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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the National Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) | Mark Wilson via Getty Images
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder indicated on Tuesday that the Justice Department is wrapping up two separate investigations that stemmed from the shooting of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, six months ago.
Holder, speaking at the National Press Club, said he was "confident" that he would be able to announce the results of a civil rights investigation into the shooting of 18-year-old Brown by Officer Darren Wilson as well as of a broader investigation into the conduct of the Ferguson Police Department before he steps down as attorney general, which is likely to happen in the next few weeks. Holder intends to retire once his successor is confirmed. Loretta Lynch's nomination for the position is currently pending in the Senate.
"My hope will be, as I said, to make these determinations before I go," Holder said in response to a question about the probes, adding that he was briefed on the status of both of the investigations last week.
"I'm satisfied with the progress that we have made, and also I'm comfortable saying that I'm going to be able to make those calls before I leave office," Holder said.
Holder also said he was "confident that people will be satisfied with the results that we announce" and said that his prior comments about the need for wholesale change within the Ferguson Police Department would not impact the investigation being conducted by career Justice Department lawyers in the department's Civil Rights Division. Wilson is not expected to be federally indicted on civil rights charges in Brown's death, but many anticipate that the so-called "pattern or practice" probe into the Ferguson Police Department will find issues with the way the department operates.
Holder was also critical of the way that authorities in St. Louis County deployed tactical vehicles and weapons even during peaceful daytime protests back in August, but indicated that he saw it more as an issue of training rather than a question of whether local and state law enforcement organizations should have had the equipment in the first place.
"The deployment of at least some of that military hardware in Ferguson exacerbated what was a pretty difficult situation," Holder said. "On the other hand, if you're in New York City, and you have to deal with a terrorist incident, I think that some of the militaristic equipment that has been made available to state and local authorities in fact can be useful."
"Armored carriers and things of that nature I think can be useful if deployed in appropriate ways," Holder said. "If it looks like the military is in fact occupying American streets during civil disturbances, that, I think, is not a good thing for the American people or for the world necessarily to see."
Holder used the speech to highlight the effects that reforms he implemented have had on the number of federal drug cases brought by federal prosecutors last year.
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In a speech on Liberal Democrat justice policy Nick Clegg will say that a rising prison population is a sign of "failure not success."
Nick will make the case that too manyabused and vulnerable women, drug addicts and people with mental health problems are currently locked up behind bars.
Nick will call for an evidence-based approach to do "what works" to cut crime, not just "to sound tough" or "play to the gallery."
In his speech, Nickwill cite a range of policies implemented by Liberal Democrats in Government to cut re-offending, halve the number of young offenders in custody and allow female offenders to be held in custody closer to their homes and families.
Nickwill also outline a number of Liberal Democrat proposals to reduce re-offending, divert people with drug and mental health problems away from the criminal justice system and reduce the number of women behind bars.
A full transcript of Nick's speech is below.
When a police officer investigates a crime, they examine the evidence.
When a prosecutor is building a case, they examine the evidence.
When a jury decides whether someone is innocent or guilty, they examine the evidence.
But when a politician bangs their fist on the lectern and announces that 'prison works' and that we need to lock up more and more people for more and more time, are they following the evidence?
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Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is callingfor fewer women offenders to be put behind bars.
In a speech on Liberal Democrat justice policy on Monday, Nick will describe the plight of thousands of abused and vulnerable women imprisoned in England and Wales as a "litany of despair."
He will highlight the huge proportion of female offenders who have suffered abuse, drug addiction and mental illness.
Two thirds of women prisoners admitted to committing their crimes so that they could get money to buy drugs, with many suffering from anxiety or depression.
Nick will say:
Nearly half of all women prisoners, and one in five men, have tried to kill themselves at some point in their lives.
Abused and vulnerable womencrammed like sardines into crowded prisons.
That is not proof that prison is working. Its a litany of despair.
Too often, for too many offenders, prison is not the answer.It is not the answer for every mother left sobbing in her cell."
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