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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