By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A six-month Justice Department investigation of the San Francisco Police Department revealed numerous problems, including an institutional bias against people of color.
The report said, “The deficiencies identified range from outdated use of force policies to inadequate data collection and lack of accountability measures. The assessment team identified disparities in traffic stops, post-stop searches, and use of deadly force against African-Americans. In addition, there are numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups,” according to CNN.
The Justice Department recommended more than 27 change in the police department following an investigation sparked by several officer-involved fatal shootings.
Most of the cases of deadly use of force involved people of color.
“The truth hurts,” said Ronald Davis, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. ”To be selectively ignorant and pretend nothing is going on around you is ultimately going to be fatal to your organization.”
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee pledged to pledged to respond to the findings.
“The SFPD will accept and implement every single recommendation. We must restore trust, ” Lee said. “We have worked hard to put reforms in place. We did not wait for the DOJ report to become final.”
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