Andrew Jarecki
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Well, they started starving them.
Sometimes no food for days.
And so the DOJ's job is to do that.
What was the DOJ doing a few years back is they were doing a kind of a sort of an okay job pursuing just the worst actors, the worst of the worst.
So they would find a police station that was just regularly harming people in its โ
Jails arresting people for no reason.
You know, they were finding prison systems where people were getting murdered, like in Alabama.
And that was going OK.
Well, that whole civil rights division of the DOJ is now basically gone, right?
It's been totally repurposed.
So now it's dealing with reverse racism and various things like that.
But they're not doing those other cases anymore.
They don't care about what's happening in a police department or what's happening in a... So you don't even have that level of scrutiny.
So you don't have the press.
I mean, I think most recently you've seen the DOJ just dismantle the Civil Rights Division.
So that's been in the current administration.
They also didn't do a great job, but they did bring actions that had impact in a bunch of different states.