POLICE ABUSE

PAGE ONE

Panel 1

Close up of a document resting on a table. At the top of the document it reads: “Consent Decree.” A couple stats are on the page: “250,000+ civilians injured by police each year” and “Black citizens 2x as likely to be shot as white.” A pen lies on the page.

CAPTION: An often overlooked Project 2025 proposal is the elimination of federal supervision over police departments that engage in racial discrimination and excessive violence. (1) (2) (3)

Panel 2

A police officer signs the consent decree on a table, looking chagrined. Overlooking him is a man in a suit.

CAPTION: Established in 1994, consent decrees subject those police departments to DOJ oversight until they achieve certain milestones.

Panel 3

A series of police department badges.

CAPTION: The DOJ is currently monitoring more than 20 such departments, including the Minneapolis P.D. after the killing of George Floyd. (4)

Panel 4

A police officer on the stand, one hand raised, speaks to a judge who watches from the bench.

CAPTION: Federal oversight is necessary because self-monitoring is notoriously difficult. Police falsification of events is so common that the NYPD coined a word for it: “testilying.” (5)

Panel 5

The same table scene with the police officer and DOJ we saw earlier, but now the DOJ agent is walking away, and the officer is tearing up the consent decree.

CAPTION: But instead of working to reduce police violence, Project 2025 would tear up all ongoing consent decrees and prohibit any further investigations.

Panel 6

An image of a calendar labeled “November 2024.”  The fifth is circled in red, and above it is scribbled the word “VOTE!”

CAPTION: Soon, though, you’ll have the power to take the pen from the hands that would strike through these protective guardrails….

CAPTION: …And make a different choice.