⚖️DOJ restores mandatory minimums while Pentagon transfers military equipment
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Trump administration reverses criminal justice reforms, increases federal funding for police militarization, and restores mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. The Justice Department announces investigation into prosecutors who pursued police accountability while expanding private prison contracts and ending oversight of police departments.
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👮♂️ Reduced oversight and military equipment increase aggressive policing tactics
Law enforcement agencies receive battlefield technology and immunity from accountability while communities face increased police violence without recourse. Military-style equipment transforms routine policing into combat operations that escalate civilian encounters while reducing constitutional protections against excessive force and unreasonable searches.
⚖️ Mandatory minimums and private prison expansion create profit incentives for incarceration
Criminal justice policies prioritize imprisonment over rehabilitation while private companies profit from longer sentences and higher incarceration rates. Non-violent offenders face decades in prison while corporations that run detention facilities lobby for policies that guarantee occupancy and revenue streams from human confinement.
🏘️ "Law and order" policies increase violence while reducing community safety
Aggressive policing destroys trust between communities and officers while military tactics create adversarial relationships that make neighborhoods less safe. Police militarization increases civilian casualties while reducing cooperation with law enforcement that depends on community trust and voluntary compliance with democratic governance.
📜 Fourth and Eighth Amendment protections erode through policy changes
Constitutional rights against unreasonable searches and cruel punishment disappear when police gain military authority and immunity from consequences. Everyone's constitutional protections weaken when law enforcement operates above legal accountability while citizens lose recourse against government abuse and excessive force.
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Critics say the EO conflicts with which constitutional amendment that bars unreasonable searches and seizures?
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Civil-rights groups filed suit in which U.S. district court two days after the EO?
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Plaintiffs invoke which 1871 statute—42 U.S.C. § 1983—to argue the EO chills civil-rights enforcement?
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Scholars say expanding DoD support risks violating which statute restricting domestic military action?
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Section 6 integrates DOJ objectives with which Homeland Security task-force structure?
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Section 2 instructs DOJ to create a fund to indemnify officers sued for on-duty conduct.
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