Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Justice Department warns LAPD to take a stronger stance against racial profiling

According to the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. Department of Justice warned the Los Angeles Police Department that investigations into racial profiling are inadequate and that racial profiling is still a tactic used by some officers. Justice officials focused on two LAPD officers who were unknowingly being recorded sharing a conversation with a supervisor dismissing accusations of racial profiling. “So what?” one officer told the other: the second officer responded by stating he “couldn’t do [his] job without racially profiling.”


The Justice Department suggests that there is “a culture that is inimical to race-neutral policing.” Police Chief Charlie Beck disputed the Justice Department findings and rejected the idea that the candid comments of the officers caught on the recording reflected a pervasive problem. Read the entire storyhere.

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