09-73867 John Coquico v. Eric Holder, Jr.
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By Evan Perez, CNN
updated 8:52 AM EDT, Wed October 8, 2014
Eric Holder will speak to police officers on Wednesday about Justice Department plans to review police tactics.
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Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department plans to expand a review of police tactics to update training, technology and other standards around the nation.
The aim, in part, is to produce broad national recommendations to enhance officers' safety, help them deal with new threats and also boost the use of technology such as police car and body cameras.
In the wake of complaints about police handling of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, critics likely will also push for new standards to address police crowd control tactics and the use of force. The protests followed the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer in August.
Associations representing police officers and executives have supported the idea of a commission to review standards.
Holder, who speaks to a gathering of police officers in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday, plans to announce his support for such a commission to do the most expansive review of police tactics in 50 years.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that communities must work to address tensions that exist between residents and police to avoid situations like the riots that occurred in Ferguson, Mo., after a black teen was fatally shot by a white officer.
Holder joined former President Bill Clinton in speaking at the Clinton Presidential Center to the United States Conference of Mayors, a two-day gathering of police chiefs and mayors from around the country that marks the 20th anniversary of the Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, program. The program, established under Clinton's administration, added 100,000 police officers and placed an emphasis on officers becoming better connected with their communities.
Holder noted that the program's implementation roughly mirrored a huge decline in violent crime across the country.
"I don't think that's an accident," he said, adding community policing "simply works."
Holder said the COPS program and others like it will be key to addressing "longstanding tensions" that exist in communities and came to a head in Ferguson.
"The events in Ferguson reminded us that we cannot and we must not allow tensions which are present in so many neighborhoods across America to go unresolved," Holder said. "With this gathering of leaders, thanks to the promise of community policing, we are declaring together that we will not."
Clinton, who took the stage shortly after Holder, recalled how the community policing effort formed in 1994 as a way to address a violent crime rate that in the previous 30 years had tripled, while the police force had only increased 10 percent. Community policing put an emphasis on placing officers on the street and establishing relationships with community members.
"The idea was to enable people like you to change the way you related to the community," Clinton told the group. "And that physical presence, that trust and relationships would create an environment that would reduce the number of crimes that would be committed in the first place as well as to enable you to solve them as quickly as possible with a minimum amount of violence and a maximum amount of cooperation."
The strategy works, Clinton said, noting a citizen was killed by police in Los Angeles shortly after the Aug. 9 shooting in Ferguson and "things went back to normal pretty quickly because of the aggressive community relations strategy that had been instituted and was implemented."
"Look, if we all live long enough and have responsibilities, we'll all make mistakes. Tragedies will happen. People will do bad things," Clinton said. "And the question is how are we going to relate to each other? How are we going to work through these things? What happens when something goes wrong?"
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Attorney General Eric Holder slammed Ohio officials on Monday for moving forward with new restrictions on early voting, calling the move a "major step backward."
"The early voting times targeted for cancellation, including weeknight and Sunday hours, previously provided critical opportunities for many people to get to the polls," Holder said in a video posted to the Department of Justice website.
He warned that the change would "disproportionately affect people with childcare responsibilities, hourly salaries, and reduced access to transportation - people who may have difficulty getting the polls at any other time, and who are much more likely to be low income or minority individuals."
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Ohio was permitted to implement the restrictions after the Supreme Court last week stayed lower court decisions that threw out the state's plan, which had been passed by the Republican-controlled legislature. The new plan reduced the number of early voting days from 35 to 28, but state officials argued that the move was not overly restrictive. "Ohio offers more early-voting options than 41 other states and the District of Columbia," the state contended in a petition to the high court, according to the Washington Post.
Holder, though, warned that the move could have the effect of disenfranchising thousands of voters. In 2012, he noted, "tens of thousands" of Ohio voters availed themselves of the voting opportunities that state officials have now eliminated.
"It is a major step backward to allow these reductions to early voting to go into effect," Holder said. "Those state officials who seek to impose these restrictions must justify clearly, factually, and empirically why they are necessary."
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