The Ferguson report : Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department

The Resource The Ferguson report : Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Label
The Ferguson report : Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Title remainder
Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Statement of responsibility
United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division ; introduction by Theodore M. Shaw
Contributor
Writer of introduction
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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"--
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
364.1/3230977865
Index
no index present
LC call number
HV8148.F47
LC item number
F47 2015
Literary form
non fiction

Context

Context of The Ferguson report : Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Waubonsee Community College. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...