Even before the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., or the Eric Garner incident in New York City last summer, Charles Ramsey, Philadelphia's police commissioner, called on the federal government to look into how the officers in his department used force, and how their use of force might contribute to the department's often strained relationship with the city's residents.
After crunching several years of data on police use of force and conducting dozens of interviews there, the Justice Department released its report on the Philadelphia Police Department on Monday. The report was notably less scathing than recent federal reviews of cities like Newark. N.J., and Ferguson ā no accusations of widespread bias or profiling of black suspects ā but it still found "uncovered policy, training, and operational deficiencies in addition to an undercurrent of significant strife between the community and department."
[For more of this story, written by Gene Demby, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/codes...by-philadelphia-cops]
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