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Most disturbing. This article recaps a portion of the findings in the 163 page report. An excerpt (bolding mine):
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There is the woman being publicly strip-searched after being stopped for a missing headlight. There are the officers coercing sex from prostitutes in exchange for avoiding arrest, planting drugs on people they stopped, cursing “shut the **** up *****” because they are “the ****ing law.” There is the supervisor telling officers “to arrest ‘all the black hoodies’ in a neighborhood.” There are officers using templates for arrests where they only had to fill in dates and names — the words “black male” were already inked in.
Running to 163 pages, the Department of Justice report on the ongoing abuse inflicted upon African Americans by the Baltimore police is full of stories like these.
The investigation was started shortly after Freddie Gray died of a severed spine after officers tossed him into a police van following a possibly illegal stop. Just last month, prosecutors dropped all charges against the remaining officers facing trial for Gray’s death after the first cases ended in acquittals.
In the report released Wednesday, Justice Department investigators concluded that over five years, Baltimore officers made 10,163 unlawful arrests, and that the more than 300,000 pedestrian stops during that period were concentrated in predominantly African-American neighborhoods and often lacked reasonable suspicion.
The article links to the actual report, and on the bottom of the page it links to are additional links.
No action has been taken on any of this? That means it's sop, not a matter of a few rogue cops, but the entire department just following procedure.
This is disgusting.
We hear people complain about this - but seeing the numbers is alarming.
Most disturbing. This article recaps a portion of the findings in the 163 page report. An excerpt (bolding mine):
The article links to the actual report, and on the bottom of the page it links to are additional links.
No action has been taken on any of this? That means it's sop, not a matter of a few rogue cops, but the entire department just following procedure.
This is disgusting.
We hear people complain about this - but seeing the numbers is alarming.
Sounds like anyone ever arrested should sue the Democrat run Baltimore police and the city council members who just happen to all be democrat individually, and overwhelm the system.
What are the demographics of the rank and file? Police departments tend to be overwhelmingly white, conservative males working patrol.
So, you're saying Democrats are horrible at hiring and managing people?
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