WASHINGTON — The Justice Department late
Monday asked a federal judge for more time to "review and assess" a
proposed agreement to overhaul the Baltimore police department, saying
it needed to determine how it might conflict with the crime-fighting
agenda of new Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The government's request for a 90-day
continuance came three days before a scheduled hearing before a federal
judge, and just hours after Sessions announced he had ordered a sweeping
review of the Justice Department's interactions with local law
enforcement, including such court-enforceable improvement plans with
troubled police agencies.
It provided an early glimpse of the attorney
general's stance on police department oversight and his
ambivalence
about mandating widespread change of local law enforcement agencies.
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