Ferguson Report: Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department - Softcover

Civil Rights Division, United States Department Of Justice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620971607 ISBN 13: 9781620971604

Verlag: The New Press, 2015

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"I was shocked but not that surprised . . . all of the police departments, all of the mayors and county and other officials throughout the country [need to] take a look in the mirror."
Colin Powell
"What the Justice Department report demonstrates is that we re not crazy. There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America."
Michelle Alexander
"Utterly devastating."
Charles Blow
"Scathing."
Wolf Blitzer
"The scope of the racism and appalling behavior is worse than I expected."
Jeffrey Toobin
"Damning."
Gwen Ifill
"The Department of Justice s investigation of the Ferguson Police Department has scandalized the nation, and justly so."
David Graeber
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"I was shocked but not that surprised . . . all of the police departments, all of the mayors and county and other officials throughout the country [need to] take a look in the mirror."
--Colin Powell

"What the Justice Department report demonstrates is that we're not crazy. There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America."
--Michelle Alexander

"Utterly devastating."
--Charles Blow

"Scathing."
--Wolf Blitzer

"The scope of the racism and appalling behavior is worse than I expected."
--Jeffrey Toobin

"Damning."
--Gwen Ifill

"The Department of Justice's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department has scandalized the nation, and justly so."
--David Graeber

Reseña del editor:

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. For months afterward, protestors took to the streets demanding justice, testifying to the racist and exploitative police department and court system, and connecting the shooting of Brown with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and other young black men at the hands of police across the country.

In the wake of these protests, the Department of Justice launched a six-month investigation, resulting in a report that Colorlines characterizes as "so caustic it reads like an Onion article" and laying bare what the Huffington Post calls "a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka's ghastliest nightmares." Among the report's findings are that the Ferguson Police Department "Engages in a Pattern of Unconstitutional Stops and Arrests in Violation of the Fourth Amendment," "Detain[s] People Without Reasonable Suspicion and Arrest[s] People Without Probable Cause," "Engages in a Pattern of First Amendment Violations," "Engages in a Pattern of Excessive Force," and "Erode[s] Community Trust, Especially Among Ferguson's African-American Residents."

Contextualized here in a substantial introduction by renowned legal scholar and former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Theodore M. Shaw, The Ferguson Report is a sad, sobering, and important document, providing a snapshot of American law enforcement at the start of the twenty-first century, with resonance far beyond one small town in Missouri.

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• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1620971607
• ISBN 13: 9781620971604
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192