DOJ to crack down on profit-driven policing

A few months ago, Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver featured a segment on Municipal fines which create criminals out of people who are simply unable to pay fines, created not to punish infractions, but to raise revenue for the municipality.

This week, Huffington Post reported that the DOJ is taking steps to crack down on this practice, which it described as, “widespread constitutional abuses in U.S. courts”.

One civil rights attorney suggested, “The number one thing that DOJ could do is to start actually prosecuting people for these conspiracies to violate peoples’ constitutional rights,” said the co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, which has successfully challenged unconstitutional local court practices.

Wouldn’t it be great if politicians and officials started getting prosecuted for the civil and constitutional rights violations that have been taking place for so long?