Jared Taylor has trudged through the whole DOJ report: How Bad is the Ferguson Police Department? - "The FPD is probably a perfectly ordinary small-town police department that cuts some corners and abuses a few people but generally keeps the town safe. It has gone through the meat-grinder because Eric Holder needs 'racists.' Officer Darren Wilson slipped through his fingers but he did Ferguson one better: He got the whole department."

How Bad is the Ferguson Police Department?

A report on the report.

On March 4, the Justice Department released its long-awaited report on the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department (FPD). It goes on for 102 single-spaced pages, and has been routinely described as a “scathing” and “devastating” exposé of police malpractice.

I trudged through the whole report, and these are the department’s main charges: The city tries to boost revenue by strictly enforcing city codes and fining people who violate them; FPD stops, questions, and arrests people without probable cause, it uses excessive force, and it discriminates against blacks.

Needless to say, this report is the equivalent of an opening statement by the prosecution, and until we hear from the FPD, we will have heard only one side of the story. If half of what the report says is true, the Ferguson Police Department has certainly made mistakes, but only a veteran police expert would know whether it is much different from any other small police department.

It’s worth recalling that the only reason the Justice Department paid any attention to Ferguson was because of a single famous incident, not because the PD had a consistent record of mistakes. That incident, the shooting of Michael Brown, turned out to be a piece of routine police work that lying “witnesses” and a partisan press blew up into a completely false chargeof “racism.” DOJ launched its investigation at the height of Ferguson hysteria. It couldn’t afford to come home empty-handed. ...

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