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Supreme Court Cases Against Police Brutality

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So, what type of impact could the Supreme Court decisions make on police brutality have on future policing processes? Well, according to website http://time.com/police-shootings-justice-department-civil-rights-investigations/, “Some legal scholars and civil libertarians have argued that the costs of the refusing to change discriminatory police practices should be even higher. They have pressed the Justice Department to aggressively use of its authority under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which allows the department to cut off federal funds to any program or agency that is found to engage in discrimination. Even some police departments that have been investigated repeatedly, the activists note, have continued to draw generous grants

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