Posted on 10/05/2009 10:51:41 PM PDT by neverdem
Federal authorities have opened an investigation into allegations of “discriminatory policing” by the Suffolk County Police Department over how officers responded to reports of crimes against Latinos, a Justice Department spokesman said Monday.
Latino residents and their advocates have accused the police in that Long Island county of systematically failing to fully investigate allegations of assaults on Latinos. After the highly publicized stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant last November — prosecutors said that his attackers were driven by prejudice against Latinos — residents stepped forward with accounts of other attacks they believed were racially motivated. Some of those cases had been reported to the police but had not resulted in any arrests.
Justice Department investigators “will seek to determine whether there are systemic violations of the Constitution or federal law” by the police, said Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the department. The agency notified Suffolk police authorities of the investigation on Sept. 30.
The police commissioner, Richard Dormer, said in a telephone interview that he welcomed the federal investigation into his police force and denied that there had any police discrimination against Latino crime victims.
The investigation, he said, “gives us a chance to dispel the myths that we didn’t investigate thoroughly and completely any complaints that have come to our attention.”
Mr. Dormer acknowledged that his force may have missed a pattern of racially motivated crime against Latinos in the county in recent years but said that was because some crimes were apparently not reported to the police.
In January, federal authorities announced that they had begun a review of numerous allegations of racially motivated crime against Latinos in Suffolk to determine which ones might be violations of federal civil rights laws. That criminal review remains open and no related charges have yet been filed, though federal authorities...
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Obama’s feds are doing this everywhere. Protecting their illegal voter base I guess. Same thing going on here in Arizona.
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We need to have an inquiry into how Latinos treat Suffolk County; we’ll use those two geniuses who busted up ACORN. She can pose as a semi-literate stripper, and he can be her coyote...
Maybe they were a bit afraid to go poking into affairs of the Latino community because that might be seen as harassment? Can’t win for losing.
Another case of liberal logic.The end result will be that laying off Latinos will make the flourishing Latin gang problem in Suffolk even worse. Might as well substitute the MS-13 logo for the SCPD logo on the squad cars.
Stiring the racist pot. King obuma and “Seig Heil” Holder want blacks and Latinos at each other’s throats. It helps divert attention from the looting of liberal cties by the racist thugs.
Double double toil and trouble...
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