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An Asian American prosecutor has resigned from Donald Trump's presidential commission on law enforcement because he felt the commission was promoting a predetermined agenda.
Ramsey County, Minnesota, District Attorney John Choi, has resigned from Donald Trump’s presidential commission on law enforcement over concerns the commission was promoting a predetermined agenda instead of bridging the gap between communities of color and law enforcement.
Choi sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr outlining his concerns. He wrote that the commission was ignoring the lessons of the past, and “needed to listen to those who have been negatively impacted by policing and the criminal justice system,” according to HuffPost.
“Rather than examine how decades of over-policing in communities of color have created the deficit of trust, the Commission was instead encouraged to study ‘underenforcement’ of criminal laws and ‘refusals by State and local prosecutors to enforce laws or prosecute categories of crimes’,” said Choi.
The Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice was formed in late 2019, and Trump ordered the group to issue a report within one year, a deadline that is a few days before the 2020 presidential election.
However, the commission is composed predominantly by members of law enforcement, calling into question their impartiality.
Choi, a Democrat, said in his resignation letter that "it is now patently obvious ... that this process had no intention of engaging in a thoughtful and open analysis, but was intent on providing cover for a predetermined agenda that ignores the lessons of the past, furthering failed tough-on-crime policies that led to our current mass incarceration crisis and fueling divisions between our communities and our police officers."
Ramsey County, Minnesota, District Attorney John Choi, has resigned from Donald Trump’s presidential commission on law enforcement over concerns the commission was promoting a predetermined agenda instead of bridging the gap between communities of color and law enforcement.
Choi sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr outlining his concerns. He wrote that the commission was ignoring the lessons of the past, and “needed to listen to those who have been negatively impacted by policing and the criminal justice system,” according to HuffPost.
“Rather than examine how decades of over-policing in communities of color have created the deficit of trust, the Commission was instead encouraged to study ‘underenforcement’ of criminal laws and ‘refusals by State and local prosecutors to enforce laws or prosecute categories of crimes’,” said Choi.
The Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice was formed in late 2019, and Trump ordered the group to issue a report within one year, a deadline that is a few days before the 2020 presidential election.
However, the commission is composed predominantly by members of law enforcement, calling into question their impartiality.
Choi, a Democrat, said in his resignation letter that "it is now patently obvious ... that this process had no intention of engaging in a thoughtful and open analysis, but was intent on providing cover for a predetermined agenda that ignores the lessons of the past, furthering failed tough-on-crime policies that led to our current mass incarceration crisis and fueling divisions between our communities and our police officers."
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