The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a scathing report in response to a series of deadly police shootings that pointed to patterns of excessive force by the Albuquerque Police Department, serious constitutional violations and a lack of training and oversight of its officers.
After more than a year of reviewing hundreds of cases handled by the Albuquerque police, the federal agency found that officers too frequently used deadly force on people "who posed a minimal threat" and used a higher level of force too often on those with mental illness.
Albuquerque police have received much criticism over 37 shootings by officers since 2010, 23 of which were fatal. The Justice Department found the majority of those shootings were unreasonable and violated constitutional rights. The DOJ also found a significant number of instances in which officers used less lethal measures such as Tasers in an unconstitutional manner.
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Now if only the Justice Department would pull its' collective head out of it's collective asses, there would be very soon 23 murder trials.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they will ignore this as usual.
ReplyDeletePersonally the justice Dept needs to stay out of it.
ReplyDeleteConsidering who is in charge of it, I am sure you are correct.
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