Posted on 08/10/2016 3:09:10 PM PDT by Ennis85
A US justice department report has accused police in the city of Baltimore of routinely discriminating against black people and using excessive force. An inquiry was ordered after a young black man, Freddie Gray, died in police custody in April of last year, sparking Baltimore's worst riots for decades. The report found African-Americans had been disproportionately targeted. Unjustified strip searches were conducted while in one arrest, a black man's weapon was listed as "his mouth". In recent years, the justice department has conducted similar investigations into the police in Chicago, Cleveland, Albuquerque and Ferguson, Missouri. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake responded to Wednesday's report by promising speedy reforms.
The statistics are damning and the individual cases studies are alarming. The report talks of one black man being stopped 30 times in four years without ever being charged and 60 cases of the police being accused of using the N-word in interactions with black people, though only one of those incidents being recorded as the use of a racial slur. But the report's findings seem to have surprised very few here. The feeling among many is that American policing is beset with systemic racism, with Baltimore having a particularly bad record. The fact that around 40% of the city's police force is now African American does not appear to have been enough to turn things around. The Department of Justice has recommended a push towards community policing, a style of law enforcement that has been resisted by forces in other parts of the country.
"Over the next few months, we will put in place a concrete plan for change and a new culture - for the good of the city, the police department and the people it protects," she said in a statement.
The report runs to 163 pages. Among the findings:
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So, a police department with mostly black cops in a mostly black city - Baltimore - is being racist by arresting mostly black people. Got it.
As these welfare reservations fall deeper into insolvency, expect federal solutions to all of them - they need white tax dollars to pay their bills (and justification for stealing those funds). Most Baltimore residents pay no taxes; in Detroit they couldn’t be bothered to pay their water bills. Now WE are going to do that for them (along with paying for everything else).
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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