article_snippet.sent: And yet the federal government has proven to be quite adept at influencing education policy in states and cities.
article_snippet.sent: By conditioning federal funds on compliance with federal standards.
article_snippet.sent: In contrast, while the Department of Justice provides more than $1 billion annually in grants to police departments across the country, those funds are provided free from obligations that awardees adopt federal standards on training, data collection or other measures with an explicit anti-racial bias focus.
article_snippet.sent: Also, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice must be properly funded to investigate any police departments suspected of engaging in a pattern and practice of discrimination.
article_snippet.sent: Such investigations doubled to more than 20 under Attorney General Eric Holder, but given the nearly 30,000 police departments spread across the country, this is woefully inadequate.
article_snippet.sent: this's been reported that nearly every investigation conducted by the Department of Justice has resulted in a finding of a pattern and practice of discrimination.
article_snippet.sent: But the $12 million currently allocated to Such investigations is a shameful pittance.