Even as America was in the throes of a major crime wave, instead of fighting it, the Justice Department played a key operational role in enabling it by suppressing law enforcement. The key element in it was the Civil Rights Division. The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is essentially the enforcement arm of the Left whose prime mission used to be rigging elections for Democrats, but then developed a sideline in lynching police officers in order to enable BLM riots which were geared to elect Democrats during election years.

The DOJ is now freezing the consent decrees that the Biden admin was trying to rush through at the last minute. Memphis blew off the DOJ and its demand for a consent decree that turned out to be the smart move. Some Dem cities, including Minneapolis, went along with settlements and consent decrees that the new DOJ leadership will now try to toss out.

Getting rid of them is key to putting law enforcement back on the streets and fighting crime. The police lynchings, beginning with Ferguson, created the Ferguson Effect, which kept police out and boosted the confidence of criminals and rioters. The DOJ is sending a whole new message now.

The Ferguson Effect is dead and with it the nationwide crime wave.

Good news for Memphis. Good news for America. Bad news for criminals or as the old DOJ’s Civil Rights pro-crime hacks might have said, “bad news for justice-involved youths who are really victims of society.”