{"id":16189,"date":"2015-03-03T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16189"},"modified":"2015-03-03T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:37:16","slug":"wapo-justice-review-finds-racial-bias-among-ferguson-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16189","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Justice review finds racial bias among Ferguson police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/justice-dept-review-finds-pattern-of-racial-bias-among-ferguson-police\/2015\/03\/03\/27535390-c1c7-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html\">Justice review finds racial bias among Ferguson polic<\/a>e by Sari Horwitz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department will issue findings this week that accuse the police department in Ferguson, Mo., of racial bias and routinely violating the constitutional rights of citizens, including by stopping drivers without reasonable suspicion, making arrests without probable cause and using excessive force, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In hundreds of interviews and in a broad review of more than 35,000 pages of Ferguson police records and other documents, Justice officials found that although African Americans make up 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, they accounted for 93 percent of all arrests between 2012 and 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Justice review finds racial bias among Ferguson police by Sari Horwitz: The Justice Department will issue findings this week that accuse the police department in Ferguson, Mo., of racial bias and routinely violating the constitutional rights of citizens, including &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16190,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions\/16190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}