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The Ferguson Report: Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781620971604 Author(s): The Department of Justice Format: Paperback Year: 2015 Publisher: New Press Dimensions: 137 x 208 x 15 (w x l x h) Pages: 192

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Description: 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, sob