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ACLU FOIA Request to Department of Justice on Police Prosecutions

Document Date: February 23, 2015
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On February 23, the ACLU submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), seeking further information on a statistic DOJ has been circulating within international human rights fora regarding the number of federal criminal prosecutions brought against police officers in the United States from 2009-2014.

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