Amazing how the focus is always on "African-Americans and Latinos," but never on persons accused of mental illness. One would think that police treat people accused of mental illness with respect and that they are often the cause of the criminal abuse they experience from polce and psychiatrists. Obama and Holder verify their racism and lack of concern for persons with disabilities who suffer egregious institutionalized criminal abuses by police, an example of "pattern and practice" abuses. This is more form over substance by Obama the King of Appearances.
[From article]
"In a marked shift from the Bush administration, President Obama's Justice Department is aggressively investigating several big urban police departments for systematic civil rights abuses such as harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force.
[. . .]
The allegations of civil rights violations being investigated by the DOJ are often quite brutal but do not make the news outside the cities where they occur.
[. . .]
"The primary victims of police misconduct are African-Americans and Latinos. The Bush administration simply wasn't interested in this," Walker says. "The Obama-Holder DOJ puts a very high priority on this."
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/30/justice_department_civil_rights_police/index.html
Monday, May 30, 2011 16:01 ET
Obama cracks down on abuses by big-city police departments
In shift from Bush, Obama's DOJ is aggressively investigating police departments accused of civil rights violations
By Justin Elliott
salon,con
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