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		<title>Blacks were disproportionately targeted by Ferguson police</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to a source cited by NPR the Ferguson Police Department &#8230; violated the Constitution when it policed to raise money and with a racial bias toward African-Americans, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the report. The investigation, the source says, concluded that blacks were disproportionately targeted by the police and the justice &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/03/blacks-were-disproportionately-targeted-by-ferguson-police/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Blacks were disproportionately targeted by Ferguson police</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/03/390464149/source-probe-of-ferguson-police-uncovers-racist-comments-about-obama?utm_source=alert&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=20150303&#038;utm_campaign=breakingnews&#038;utm_term=nprnews">According to a source cited by NPR the Ferguson Police Department </a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;  violated the Constitution when it policed to raise money and with a racial bias toward African-Americans, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the report.</p>
<p>The investigation, the source says, concluded that blacks were disproportionately targeted by the police and the justice system and that has led to a lack of trust in police and courts and has led to few partnerships for public safety.</p></blockquote>
<p>The report will be released on Wednesday.  But there are some tidbits available including two emails between police and court employees.</p>
<blockquote><p>One says Obama will not be president for long because &#8220;what black man holds a steady job for four years.&#8221; Another says a black woman in New Orleans was admitted to a hospital to end her pregnancy and then got a check two weeks later from &#8220;Crime Stoppers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>According to the data assembled in the report, African Americans constitute 67% of the Ferguson population but make up 85% of the vehicular stops and 93% of those arrested, and are twice as likely to be searched as whites but less likely to possess drugs or weapons one searched.  </p>
<p>In the court sytem, African Americans were 68% less likely than non-African Americans to have cases dismissed by municipal judges and more likely to have arrest warrents taken out on them.  NPR reports that &#8220;From October 2012 to October 2014, 96 percent of people arrested in traffic stops solely for an outstanding warrant were black,&#8221; and &#8220;Blacks accounted for 95 percent of jaywalking charges, 94 percent of failure to comply charges and 92 percent of all disturbing the peace charges.&#8221;</p>
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