A poet redacts the Department of Justice investigation of police bias and brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, revealing larger lyric insights about American life.
severely damaged relationships between law enforcement and members of the community, but made professional policing vastly more difficult. and i think very significantly, unnecessarily placed officers at increased risk and today, now that our investigation has reached its on collusion, it is time, it is time for ferguson s leaders to take immediate, wholesale instructional corrective action. the united states department of justice reserves all of its rights and abilities to force compliance and to implement basic change. nothing is off the table. the report from the justice department presents two sets of immediate recommendations for the ferguson police department and the municipal court. these recommendations include the implementation of a robust system of policing, increased tracking, review and analysis of ferguson s police department stop, search, ticketing and arrest practices.
image that severely damaged relationships between law enforcement and members of the community but made professional policing vastly more difficult, and i think very significantly unnecessarily placed officers at increased risk and today, now that our investigation has reached its conclusion it is time it is time for ferguson s leaders to take immediate, wholesale and structural corrective action. let me be clear. the united states department of justice reserves all of its rights and abilities to force compliance and to implement basic change. nothing is off the table. the report from the justice department presents two sets of immediate recommendations for the ferguson police department and the municipal court. these recommendations include the implementation of a robust system of crew community policing increased tracking review and analysis of ferguson police department stop search ticketing and arrest practices.
and arrest practices, increased civilab involvement in police civilian involvement in police decision-making and mechanisms to directly respond to allegations of officer misconduct. and they also involve changed to the municipal court system including modification to bond amounts and detention procedures and the end of use of arrest warrants to collect owed fines and fees and combined with basic due process and sustaining due process be part of a court hyphen forceable remedial process that includes involvement from community stake holders and independent oversight to remedy the conduct that we have identified to address the underlying culture that we have uncovered and to restore and rebuild the trust that has so badly been eroded. now as the brother of a retired police officer i know that the
gun, then this videotape could be part of a very powerful verdict someday. so this could actually be part of the lawsuit, this video? i think there s a clear connection that could be made. no guarantees, but if it comes in in front of a jury, it s going to be important. midwin, under attorney general eric holder, the justice department has opened over two dozen investigations into police tactics. in new orleans, it found officers too often used excessive force and conduct illegal stops, searches and arrests. in newark, it found a pattern or practice of constitutional violations in stop and arrest practices. in cleveland, it found excessive force in violation of the fourth amendment. there are many more examples like this. are local prosecutors across the country taking this seriously enough? i should hope that they are. but i think the aftermath of the ferguson case, as well as eric garner, teaches us a lesson. and this might be a water shed