Ombudsman International, Becomes An Icon Fixture On The Wall of Civil Rights and
U.S. Government Oversight Agencies
In fact, since the inception of Ombudsman International in 2000, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, has become more committed to the vigorous enforcement of every federal, criminal civil rights statute, such as those laws that prohibit the willful use of excessive force or other acts of misconduct by law enforcement officials. In fiscal year 2006, nearly 50 percent of the cases brought by the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division involved such prosecutions. Since fiscal year 2001, the Department of Justice has convicted 50 percent more defendants for excessive force and official misconduct than in the preceding six years.
Ombudsman International was the birth of a new crusader for the people, an institution that would listen to the cries of the people, an institution that would fight when most organizations feared reprisals. My wife and I began fighting for the people, state by state. Thousands of people joined in helping to form the newest government watchdog. Today, more than 1.6 million Internet browsers have visited Ombudsman International Inc.’s official Web site http://www.ombudsmaninc.org/ to become informed on how to fight corruption within the police departments and political offices across America.
