Officials: US report finds racial bias in Ferguson police
Source: Associated Press
Officials: US report finds racial bias in Ferguson police
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press | March 3, 2015 | Updated: March 3, 2015 2:05pm
WASHINGTON (AP) A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court, law enforcement officials familiar with the report said Tuesday.
The report, which could be released as soon as Wednesday, will charge that police disproportionately use excessive force against blacks and that black drivers are stopped and searched far more often than white motorists, even though they're less likely to be carrying contraband.
The Justice Department also found that blacks were 68 percent less likely than others to have their cases dismissed by a municipal court judge, and that from April to September of last year, 95 percent of people kept at the city jail for more than two days were black, according to the officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record before the report is made public.
The Justice Department began the civil rights investigation following the August shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer. That killing set off weeks of protests.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Ferguson-officials-to-meet-with-Justice-Department-6112111.php
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)The rightwingnut-o-sphere will go berserk over this report, blaming the whole thing on Eric Holder.
herding cats
(19,549 posts)Looks like he held that job long enough for their racist ways to be brought out into the light.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)And the cop thinking, "How did we miss one?"
freebrew
(1,917 posts)will just figure the report is racially biased against THEM.
msongs
(67,193 posts)an extortion racket
romanic
(2,841 posts).