the washington post reporting one such e-mail reporting that president obama could not be president for very long because what black man holds a steady job for four years. the full justice department report scheduled to be released tomorrow also criticizes ferguson s ticketing practices. african-americans accounted for 95% of all manner of walking in roadway charges. jay walking, essentially. the first that struck me was they were walking in the middle of the street. joining me now is sari horiwitz. you re one of very few people that have seen this report. what do you make of it? chris, you were there in ferguson, so you know how people felt about the police department. the justice department came in
department. what s going to happen next is the justice department is going to negotiate with the ferguson police department. if they are able to negotiate and come to an agreement and have a decree, they will put in reforms and try to make changes in the department so these numbers you just sited will change. if they don t come to that agreement with the ferguson police department, they can sue the department as they have done in other cases. for example, they sued several other law enforcement agencies. in arizona, a sheriff was sued by the justice department. that is a possibility. now a justice official told me today that so far the ferguson police department has been cooperating. as you pointed out, the justice department went down to ferguson. they were able to look at 35,000 pages of documents. they sat in four court sessions,
department in ferguson, missouri found a pattern of racial bias in 2012 to 2014. federal officials started the investigation after ferguson police officer darryn wilson shot and killed michael brown. investigators looked at 35,000 pages of police rors and conducted hundreds of interviews. the report says nothing about the death of michael brown, but it does conclude that between 2012 and 2014 in a city where two thirds or 67% of the population is black, black residents were 85% of all traffic stops and 88% of all cases where police had to use force. 90% were citations and 93% of all arrests. the justice department found evidence of bias in e-mails.
department went down to ferguson. they were able to look at 35,000 pages of documents. they sat in four court sessions they interviewed hundreds of people including the police chief, the supervisory command officials. one of the things that people told me repeatedly down in ferguson is that ferguson is one of a whole bunch of municipalities running the same way. you can point to jennings who had a police department disbanded by the feds and b it is where darryn wilson got his start. there is a question of does this start in ferguson. the reaction is that some community leaders, the people very active in the protests afterwards are upset that the justice didn t did not go far enough. they felt that the police department should be disbanded.
they interviewed hundreds of people including the police chief, the supervisory command officials. one of the things that people told me repeatedly down in ferguson is that ferguson is one of a whole bunch of municipalities running the same way. you can point to jennings who had a police department disbanded by the feds, and b it is where darryn wilson got his start. there is a question of does this start in ferguson. the reaction is that some community leaders, the people very active in the protests afterwards are upset that the justice didn t did not go far enough. they felt that the police department should be disbanded. the cheer should be fired, and other departments should be taken to task for the same kinds of violations. sari horwitz, thank you for joining us.