Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer Delivers Remarks at the Program Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Justice Department’s Police Reform Statute

Thank you, Regan, for your kind introduction, and huge thanks to the Special Litigation Team for your tireless work — the result of which has been to make this an anniversary that is truly worth celebrating. Your efforts and expertise have led to safer communities, improved services for people with behavioral health disabilities, greater trust between police and the communities they serve, better training and more support for police officers, and more effective policing. I want to also express my gratitude to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, under whose leadership the Civil Rights Division has opened 12 pattern-or-practice cases.

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