http://nypost.com/2016/03/27/ag-loretta-lynch-wants-to-let-nation-break-law-without-consequences/
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has issued a warning to municipal and
state judges across the country that their courts could lose federal
funding if they don’t ease up on fines and arrest warrants for minor
crimes involving poor offenders, indigent minorities in particular.
In lieu of fines and jail time, Lynch urges the nation’s 6,500
municipal courts to provide an avenue for offenders to perform
“community service” or take advantage of “amnesty days,” whereby
outstanding arrest warrants are cleared for nominal fees.
Failure to comply with these policies could trigger a Ferguson-style
discrimination investigation. Already, Lynch says she’s “evaluating
discrimination complaints against several court systems.”
A strongly worded “guidance” letter, written by her civil rights
team, warns that a local court policy of enforcing warrants for failure
to pay court fines and fees can have an adverse “disparate impact” on
African-Americans, who are fined and/or arrested for outstanding
warrants at “disproportionate” rates versus whites.
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