Justice
The Most Important Case for Civilian Police Oversight: Protecting Children
The DOJ’s civil rights chief addresses aggressive police actions aimed at one of the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
Vanita Gupta, assistant attorney general and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, brought up an often overlooked issue in her address to the National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement this week: Police are bad at dealing with children.
Said Gupta at the organization’s 21 annual conference two days ago: