“Attorney General Jeff Sessions, though, has announced that he intends to ‘pull back’ from investigating civil rights violations by police. Instead, his Justice Department will focus on improving police morale and on federalizing more prosecutions to ensure that people convicted of crimes serve longer sentences. Sessions asserts that these steps are necessary to address what he says is a crisis in violent crime. The investigations of Ferguson and, later, of Chicago? Without having read them , Sessions dismissed the reports as ‘pretty anecdotal.’”