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UNITED STATES: CITIES: FERGUSON, MISSOURI :
POLITICS: ELECTIONS:
Change is Coming to Ferguson
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Change is Coming to Ferguson
By Sherrilyn Ifill
Updated 8:36 AM ET, Wednesday April 8, 2015
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/04/opinions/ifill-ferguson-whats-next/
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(CNN)Change is coming to Ferguson. In the next few weeks the Department of
Justice (DOJ)
will begin to negotiate in earnest with the city to restructure the police
department, which the
department has charged with engaging in a pattern and practice of racial
discrimination.
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It should not be forgotten that the DOJ review of the Ferguson Police
Department was
precipitated by months of protests and activism following the killing of
Michael Brown by a
Ferguson police officer and by revelations about the town's dysfunctional
government and
court system by local civil rights law groups. Now, after a half year of
unrest, and with citizens
on Tuesday electing two new black city council members, change is beginning
to come to
Ferguson. The question is, what kind of change?
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The report from the Department of Justice offered a devastating insight
into a police department
and court system that preyed on its own citizens. Through illegal traffic
stops and arrests, and
the use of excessive force, the police department held town residents in
bondage.
The municipal court system used excessive court fines and fees to ensure
that citizens arrested
for even minor infractions would be charged thousands of dollars or face
jail time.
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Court costs and fees constituted the second-largest sources of revenue for
the town. Rather than
a force for public safety, the Ferguson Police Department became, according
to Attorney General
Eric Holder, "a collection agency" -- one that preyed disproportionately on
the town's
African-American residents.
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The evidence of ugly and explicit racial discrimination was devastating. It
included blatantly racist
emails traded among officers, and evidence that African-Americans were
victims in all of the police
canine bite incidents recorded by the department. But just a few weeks
before the release of the
report, the Ferguson police chief declared there were "no racial issues" in
his department.
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Ferguson's ugly, racist emails released
<http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/us/ferguson-justice-department-report-emails/index.html>
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The recommendations in the report, ranging from new training and
supervision of police officers,
addressing racially discriminatory conduct to structural revisions in the
court system, will, if
implemented, remake the law enforcement system in the town. (A grand jury
that investigated
the shooting of Brown by Officer Darren Wilson chose not to file charges
against him and the
Justice Department also didn't find reason to prosecute.)
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Without question, change is coming to the town's government. Town Manager
John Shaw,
Ferguson's most powerful official and, until the DOJ's blistering report,
the one who inexplicably
managed to elude public scrutiny, resigned weeks ago and has been replaced
by the city's deputy
manager.
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