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Baltimore police routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents by conducting unlawful stops and using excessive force, according to the findings of a long-anticipated Justice Department probe to be released Wednesday.In often scathing language, the report identified systemic problems and cited detailed examples. The investigators found that "supervisors have issued explicitly discriminatory orders, such as directing a shift to arrest 'all the black hoodies' in a neighborhood." They also found that black residents were more likely to be stopped and searched as pedestrians and drivers even though police were more likely to find illegal guns, illicit drugs and other contraband on white residents.
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Among the Justice Department findings: Baltimore police too often stopped, frisked and arrested residents without legal justification, and such activities fell disproportionately on black residents.The report noted that officers recorded more than 300,000 pedestrian stops from January 2010 to May 2015. Roughly 44 percent were made in two small, predominantly African-American districts that contain 11 percent of the city's population, and seven black men were stopped more than 30 times each. Black pedestrians were 37 percent more likely to be searched by Baltimore police citywide and 23 percent more likely to be searched during vehicle stops. But officers found contraband twice as often when searching white residents during vehicle stops and 50 percent more often during pedestrian stops, the report notes. . . . The report also found that Baltimore police routinely misclassified citizen complaints about racial slurs used by officers.In six years of data on citizen complaints, only one complaint was classified as a racial slur. "This is implausible," the federal investigators found, and so they went back to the complaints and searched for keywords, including racial slurs against blacks. They found 60 additional complaints that alleged Baltimore officers "used just one racial slur — 'n----r' — but all of these complaints were misclassified as a lesser offense," the report found.
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And it isn't just Baltimore. See that line up there about how blacks were targeted more for stop and frisk (or search, which is what they actually do despite claiming it was just a frisk) despite the fat that it was white people who had the highest percentage of illegal guns, drugs, and other contraband? NYT had the same problem.
In addition to cover-ups about officers using racist slurs, there other "interesting" findings, such as sexual assaults by police officers on women, frequent use of excessive force, bad training, and so forth.
Justice Department report: Baltimore police routinely violated civil rights - Baltimore Sun
DOJ report finds Baltimore police routinely violate constitutional rights.
....and, FYI, dishonest attempts at distraction such as posters saying "BLM this, BLM that" simply won't justify, excuse, or in any way affect this report. Neither will incredibly stupid and dishonest attempts at distraction such as announcing that "Obama is racist against white people" or "Obama just hates cops" or "Obama is a muslim derpherp!" No doubt some will attempt it anyway.
Baltimore police routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents by conducting unlawful stops and using excessive force, according to the findings of a long-anticipated Justice Department probe to be released Wednesday.In often scathing language, the report identified systemic problems and cited detailed examples. The investigators found that "supervisors have issued explicitly discriminatory orders, such as directing a shift to arrest 'all the black hoodies' in a neighborhood." They also found that black residents were more likely to be stopped and searched as pedestrians and drivers even though police were more likely to find illegal guns, illicit drugs and other contraband on white residents.
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Among the Justice Department findings: Baltimore police too often stopped, frisked and arrested residents without legal justification, and such activities fell disproportionately on black residents.The report noted that officers recorded more than 300,000 pedestrian stops from January 2010 to May 2015. Roughly 44 percent were made in two small, predominantly African-American districts that contain 11 percent of the city's population, and seven black men were stopped more than 30 times each. Black pedestrians were 37 percent more likely to be searched by Baltimore police citywide and 23 percent more likely to be searched during vehicle stops. But officers found contraband twice as often when searching white residents during vehicle stops and 50 percent more often during pedestrian stops, the report notes. . . . The report also found that Baltimore police routinely misclassified citizen complaints about racial slurs used by officers.In six years of data on citizen complaints, only one complaint was classified as a racial slur. "This is implausible," the federal investigators found, and so they went back to the complaints and searched for keywords, including racial slurs against blacks. They found 60 additional complaints that alleged Baltimore officers "used just one racial slur — 'n----r' — but all of these complaints were misclassified as a lesser offense," the report found.
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And it isn't just Baltimore. See that line up there about how blacks were targeted more for stop and frisk (or search, which is what they actually do despite claiming it was just a frisk) despite the fat that it was white people who had the highest percentage of illegal guns, drugs, and other contraband? NYT had the same problem.
In addition to cover-ups about officers using racist slurs, there other "interesting" findings, such as sexual assaults by police officers on women, frequent use of excessive force, bad training, and so forth.
Justice Department report: Baltimore police routinely violated civil rights - Baltimore Sun
DOJ report finds Baltimore police routinely violate constitutional rights.
....and, FYI, dishonest attempts at distraction such as posters saying "BLM this, BLM that" simply won't justify, excuse, or in any way affect this report. Neither will incredibly stupid and dishonest attempts at distraction such as announcing that "Obama is racist against white people" or "Obama just hates cops" or "Obama is a muslim derpherp!" No doubt some will attempt it anyway.
