this investigation found a community that was deeply polarized, a community where a deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and area residence residence. reporter: the report found shocking incidents of alleged abuse, including police almost exclusively using dogs against black suspect, excessive force against the mental ali ill. the doj is demanding ferguson change the stop search and arrest procedures limit excessive force, and use tasers and force only if supervisor is present. recruit, hire and promote deverse officers. he says he prays change will come. do you think there s a willingness here? yay and nay. i say yay on that so much attention is brought in on it. nay on the simple fact that once the attention gets off of it it will go back to the way it used to be done. reporter: statement from
ferguson, missouri. there was a press conference today after the justice department s decision not to charge officer darren wilson in the death of michael brown. attorneys announced that they are filing a civil suit against the city of ferguson and officer darren wilson. they disagree with the findings of the department of justice. the report provides disturbing details about racial profiling from the ferguson police department. back in november we had a guest on this program who talked about his personal experience with the st. louis city police. it is eerily similar to the doj s finding about first son. #. this investigation found a community where deep distrust and hostility often characterized interacts between police and area residents. i was driving. pulled off. as soon as i pulled off i noticed three trucks following
ferguson police department. let s play it. this investigation found a community that was deeply polarized, a community where a deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and area residents. a community where local authorities consistently approached law enforcement not as a means for protecting public safety but as a way to generate revenue, a community where both policing and municipal court practices were found to be to be dis disproportionately harmful to african-american residents and frequency where this stems from racial bias both implicit and explicit. john, you were heavily involved in the civil case with rodney king and the lapd department and you see and hear that the police chief remains in place, how do you feel regarding the climate change or the changes that will obviously be needed for this department to have credibility if he stays in
corroborate brown s attempt to gain control of the gun, there is no credible evidence to disprove wilson s account of what occurred inside the suv. and there is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove wilson s stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety. although wilson was not charged, a second doj report on the ferguson police department was scathing. and led to an incredible scene in washington, d.c., today, as the first black u.s. attorney general in the history of the nation came before a microphone and described a police department that has been running for years essentially an unconstitutional racket on the black residents of ferguson, missouri. a racket to extract revenue, to harass them and intimidate them, and in many cases ruin their lives. this investigation found a community that was deeply polarized. a community where deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and area residents.
a community where deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and area residents. a community where local authorities consistently approached law enforcement, not as a means for protecting public safety, but as a way to generate revenue. this emphasis on extracting revenue through policing sometimes led to multiple arrests, even jail time. in 2007 one woman received two parking tickets that together totaled $152. to date she s paid $550 in fines, and fees to the city of ferguson. she has been arrested twice for having unpaid tickets. and she has spent six days in jail. yet today, she s still inexplicably owing ferguson $541. and her story is only one of dozens of similar accounts that our investigation uncovered.