steady job for many years? these bias practices contributed to a toxic environment according to the report. although some community perception of michael brown s tragic death may not have been accurate, the widespread conditions that these perceptions were based upon and the climate that gave rise to them were all too real. reporter: the justice department announcing it will not be filing criminal charges against former ferguson police officer darren wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. brown s family responded with a statement this afternoon reading in part while we are saddened by this decision we are encouraged that the doj will hold the ferguson police department accountable for the pattern of racial bias and profiling they found in their handling of interactions with people of color. the justice department has issued more than two dozen recommended changes for the city of ferguson including improved training and measures to reduce bias. if city leaders refuse to ma
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place. i ve not seen anything with this amount of intensity since then. certainly there were some protests after rodney king and other high profile events but this has been going on for a period of time which really highlights a problem that we have in our society. do you think if you weren t a cop today, weren t a police commissioner in the great city of philadelphia and you were in your 20s, would you join those who are marching? do you understand why some of them are coming from? i understand where they re coming from. i think we have to really reach out. the only issue i have during this entire period of time is the way in which it s kind of being generalized that all police officers are using excessive force, all police officers are engaging in bias practices. that s not the case. but, i do think that there is an issue here. there s no question in my mind there s an issue. it s a long standing issue. i want to read you part of a piece written by a 25-year-old