Baltimore Police Used Force 2,818 Times In Six Years. They Found One Violation
A Department of Justice report found the police force holds an “us-versus-them mentality” and routinely abuses residents’ rights. WASHINGTON ― The Baltimore Police Department routinely abused residents’ civil rights, performed unconstitutional searches, retaliated against individuals exercising free-speech rights and failed to hold cops accountable for misconduct, according to a damning federal report. The Justice Department report, to be formally released on Wednesday, confirms what some Baltimore residents already know ― that Baltimore police routinely and disproportionately stop, frisk and arrest poor black residents without legal justification. “Baltimore’s legacy of government-sanctioned discrimination, serious health hazards, and high rates of violent crime…