Pattern-or-Practice Investigations and Police Reform
Pattern-or-Practice Investigations and Police Reform Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo talks with protesters at the scene of George Floyd's death in May 2020. (Chad Davis, https://flic.kr/p/2j7CLYT; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) On April 21, the morning after a Minneapolis jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department had opened a civil investigation “to determine whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstit...