{"id":42826,"date":"2021-12-03T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42826"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:16:59","slug":"doj-launches-civil-rights-probe-into-police-department-in-new-york-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42826","title":{"rendered":"DOJ launches civil rights probe into police department in New York suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it would be opening a civil rights investigation into a police department in a New York City suburb.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York and the DOJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division announced that the &#8220;pattern-or-practice&#8221; probe would evaluate allegations concerning the Mount Vernon Police Department&#8217;s use of force and strip searches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police officers have tough jobs, and so many do their work honorably, lawfully, and with distinction, respecting the rights of the citizens they have sworn to protect,&#8221; said Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for New York&#8217;s Southern District. &#8220;But when officers break the law, they violate their oath and undermine a community\u2019s trust.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42827,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42826\/revisions\/42827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}