Demonstrating grotesque views and images of african-americans in which they were seen as the other called transient by public officials and characterized as lacking personal responsibility. now i want to emphasize that all of these examples statistics and conclusions are drawn directly from the exhaustive findings report that the department of justice has now released. clearly these findings and others included in the report demonstrate that although some community perception of michael brown s tragedy death might not have been accurate the widespread conditions that these perceptions were based upon and the climate that gave rise to them were all too real. some of those protesters were right. this is a reality that our investigators repeatedly encountered in their interviews of city and police officials and conversations with local residents and the review of thousands of pages of records and documents. this evidence pointed to an unfortunate and unsustainable
Issued today was a hammer blow for the police department and what you ll see d.o.j. do now is go meet with the police department and see these are our demands. we expect every one of these to be implemented and a federal monitor to be apointed to oversee them and appointed and to oversee them and report back to d.o.j. probably by a court and if you are not prepared to agree, we ll see you in court and we feel very strong in our case based on the evidence wee rolled we rolled out today. and trymaine lee, this is a very powerful report. and the attorney general didn t just confine it to ferguson and he said this is not confined to any state or geographic region and we ve been talking about this action and relationships with police are fairly common and things happening from coast to coast that we ve talked about throughout our lives and our grandfather s lives but when he
It leads to again concrete action and to ensure that law enforcement officers in every part of the united states live up to the same high standards of professionism. it is clear from our work throughout this country and particularly through the work of our civil rights division that the prospect of police accountability and criminal justice reform is an achievable goal. one that we can reach with law enforcement and community members at the table has full partners. last august when i visited ferguson to meet with concerned citizens and community leaders i made a clem commitment a solemn commitment that the united states department of justice would continue to stand with the people there long after the national headlines had faded. well this week with the conclusions of our investigations into these matters, i again commit to the people of ferguson that we will continue to stand with you and to work with you to ensure that the necessary reforms are implemented. and even as we issue ou
Blocks to the south, it is the same thing. where is the accountability and is the hammer falling. and we see attorney general holder coming to the podium. we ll listen to his remarks. i would like to take the next few moments to address the two investigates the justice department has been conducting in ferguson, missouri the last few months. the matter we are here to discuss is significant. not only because of the conclusions that the justice department is announcing today, but also because of the broader conversation and the initiatives those conversations have inspired across the country on both the local and the national level. now those initiatives have included extensive and vital efforts to examine the causes of misunderstanding and mistrust between law enforcement and the communities that they serve. to support and strengthen our public safety institutions as a whole and to rebuild confidence where ever it has eroded.
So the kind of practices, discriminatory practices that were outlined in this report that has been issued today will be changed in the future. and the second thing i think he wants to do is assure the community of ferguson there will be real change. he wants to kind of prevent the unrest that we saw last summer and the way to do that is by demonstrating a firm solid investigation into this matter and there will be change that matters to people s lives going forward. tremain, you spend time on the ground in ferguson and you have been in touch with folks there today after the release of the report. what is the reaction there to the finding of a pattern of racial bias at the ferguson police department? i ve spent the last hour and a half speaking to about a dozen residents, activists and elected officials and they are saying we ve been saying this. on the one hand it seemed validated by the department of justice report and while they
Situation that has not only damaged relationships between law enforcement and members of community but made professional policing vastly more difficult. and i think very significantly, unnecessarily placed officers at increased risk. and today, now that our investigation has reached its conclusion, it is time it is final for ferguson leaders to take immediate wholesale and constructive correctional action. let me be clear. the united states department of justice resevens all of its rights and abilities to enforce compliance and implement basic change. nothing is off the table. the report from the justice department presents two sets of immediate recommendations for the ferguson police department and the municipal court. these recommendations include the implementation of a robust system of true community policing increased tracking review and analysis of the ferguson stop search ticketing
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Work will go on. it will go on as we engage with the city of ferguson and surrounding municipalities and surrounding municipalities to reform their law enforcement practices and to establish a public safety effort that protects and serves all members of the community. it will go on as we broaden this work and extend the assistance of the justice department to other communities around the country. and it will go on as we join together with all americans to ensure that public safety is not a burden undertaken by the brave few, but a positive collaboration between everyone in this nation. the report that we have issued and the steps that we have taken are only the beginning of a necessarily resource-intensive and exclusive process to promote reconciliation, to reduce and eliminate bias and to bridge gaps and build understanding. and in the days ahead, the department of justice will stay true to my promise.
Acknowledge there is a pattern of racial bias targeting african-american went while they are walking, they wonder how come there wasn t enough to find a violation in the encounter between darren wilson and michael brown while they might have melt on dubious racially motivated circumstances. people are glad what they have been saying has been validated, they are at a loss it wasn t enough for justice for michael brown. and they are looking at the entirety of the situation, that makes me feel very interested in what the d.o. is d.o.j. is doing, they are talking about institutional racism and we think it is excised by racial comments but here we have a system functioning in a desperate way and impact on people and our society has a lot of systems like this that are
Now nearly seven months have passed since the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown in ferguson, missouri. that tragic incident provoked widespread demonstrations and stirred really strong emotions from those in the ferguson area and around our nation. it also prompted a federal investigation by the united states department of justice with the criminal section of our civil rights division the united states attorney s office for the eastern district of missouri as well as the fbi. seeking to determine whether this shooting violated federal civil rights law. now, the promise that i made the promise that i made when i went to ferguson and at the time we launched our investigation was not that we would arrive at a particular outcome. but rather that we would pursue the facts wherever they led. our investigation has been both fair and rigorous from the start. it has proceeded independently of the local investigation that