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Fixing the Force

  • June 27, 2016
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Since 1994, the Justice Department has had the power to investigate law enforcement agencies nationwide for a pattern or practice of civil-rights violations. Federal officials can then compel departments with systemic problems to enter agreements to reform. Explore the investigations by location, date, allegation or status, then click for more details about each case. Policing the Police Sources: Justice Department officials and documentation; interviews with police and city officials and civil-rights groups; news reports. This project was reported by Sarah Childress, senior digital reporter for FRONTLINE’s Enterprise Journalism Group. It was built by Chris Amico and Ly Chheng from FRONTLINE,…

Black Lives Matter Activist Convicted of Felony Lynching: “It’s More Than Ironic, It’s Disgusting”

In Pasadena, California, Black Lives Matter organizer Jasmine Richards is facing four years in state prison after she was convicted of a rarely used statute in California law originally known as “felony lynching.” Under California’s penal code, “felony lynching” was defined as attempting to take a person out of police custody. Jasmine was arrested and charged with felony lynching last September, after police accused her of trying to de-arrest someone during a peace march at La Pintoresca Park in Pasadena on August 29, 2015. The arrest and jailing of a young black female activist on charges of felony lynching sparked…

Police Officer in Freddie Gray Case Is Acquitted of All Charges

BALTIMORE — The acquittal Monday of a police officer charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody last year, immediately renewed questions of whether any of the six police officers charged in the case would be convicted in connection with his death. Officer Edward M. Nero’s acquittal on four charges for his role in the opening moments of Mr. Gray’s arrest was a second blow to the prosecution’s sweeping case, announced as Baltimore was still seething after the unrest following Mr. Gray’s death in April 2015. The…

PORTUGUESE POLICE GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE

Veröffentlicht am 26.02.2015 This video made by PLATFORMA GUETO describes the cases of murder of young black men, who have been targeted for genocide carried out by the Portuguese police since a few years now. These cases have received inadequate attention from the society and the Portuguese authorities, showing no more than contempt for our lives. These young people were criminalized at birth by a society and a country that only remember them when they hold them in prisons, or physically eliminate them. It’s time to say ENOUGH to this genocide. We can not continue to live going by these…

Racial Profiling ist staatlicher Rassismus

Racial Profiling ist staatlicher Rassismus Die „verdachtsunabhängigen“ Kontrollen Als einzige Person in einem vollen Zug „verdachtsunabhängig“ kontrolliert zu werden – alles möglich, solange man eine dunkle Hautfarbe hat. von Aleksandra Setsumei, Aachen Im Dezember 2010 wird ein Student auf der Fahrt nach Frankfurt (Main) durch Polizeibeamte aufgefordert, seinen Ausweis vorzuzeigen. Einen Grund für die Maßnahme erfährt er nicht. Da sich der Betroffene weigert, durchsuchen die Polizisten seinen Rucksack, ohne seine Dokumente zu finden. Daraufhin wird der Student zu einer polizeilichen Dienststelle gebracht, wo seine Personalien festgestellt werden. In dem darauf folgenden Gerichtsprozess wird der Anlass der Maßnahme genannt: Es handelte…

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