{"id":14123,"date":"2014-11-11T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14123"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:55:50","slug":"14123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14123","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Lynch: Civil Actions Against Police Agencies Can Spur ‘Systemic Change’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Lynch: Civil Actions Against Police Agencies Can Spur ‘Systemic Change’<\/a> by Jacob Gershman: <\/p>\n

How would President Barack Obama’s Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch approach a high-profile police controversy like the one that engulfed Ferguson, Mo., this summer? As Ms. Lynch awaits a confirmation vote by the Senate, her views on police-community relations are one area of curiosity. The issue was a big priority for outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, whose civil rights investigation of the Ferguson, Mo., police force is among the high-profile cases Ms. Lynch would likely inherit. Ms. Lynch hasn’t talked about the Ferguson police shooting controversy. But remarks she gave during her first stint as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn in 2000 shed light on her thoughts about the role of the federal government in the area of alleged police misconduct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Lynch: Civil Actions Against Police Agencies Can Spur ‘Systemic Change’ by Jacob Gershman: How would President Barack Obama’s Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch approach a high-profile police controversy like the one that engulfed Ferguson, Mo., … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}