Surprising no one, last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled back critical civil rights protections by stating that the federal government would “pull away” from monitoring police departments engaging in systematic abuses of power.

According to Sessions, President Obama’s tactic of suing police departments for violating the civil rights of communities of color “was undermining the effectiveness of the police across the country.” And, as a result Sessions’s Department of Justice now plans to “pull back” on these investigations: “In this age of viral videos and targeted killings of police, many of men and women in law enforcement are becoming more cautious.”

Law enforcement becoming more cautious? In my book, that’s a good thing.

Police manage to safely detain white people all the time; for some reason shoot ...