<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Extracted from the <i>U.S. Department of Justice's Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department </i>(dated August 10, 2016) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/883366/download">https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/883366/download</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond'">BPD’s targeted policing of certain Baltimore neighborhoods with minimal oversight or
accountability disproportionately harms African-American residents. Racially disparate impact is
present at every stage of BPD’s enforcement actions, from the initial decision to stop individuals on
Baltimore streets to searches, arrests, and uses of force. These racial disparities, along with evidence
suggesting intentional discrimination, erode the community trust that is critical to effective policing.
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond'">BPD disproportionately stops African-American pedestrians. Citywide, BPD stopped
African-American residents three times as often as white residents after controlling for
the population of the area in which the stops occurred. In each of BPD’s nine police
districts, African Americans accounted for a greater share of BPD’s stops than the
population living in the district. And BPD is far more likely to subject individual African
Americans to multiple stops in short periods of time. In the five and a half years of data
we examined, African Americans accounted for 95 percent of the 410 individuals BPD
stopped at least 10 times. One African American man in his mid-fifties was stopped 30
times in less than 4 years. Despite these repeated intrusions, none of the 30 stops
resulted in a citation or criminal charge.
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond'">BPD also stops African American drivers at disproportionate rates. African Americans
accounted for 82 percent of all BPD vehicle stops, compared to only 60 percent of the
driving age population in the City and 27 percent of the driving age population in the
greater metropolitan area.
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond'">BPD disproportionately searches African Americans during stops. BPD searched
African Americans more frequently during pedestrian and vehicle stops, even though
searches of African Americans were less likely to discover contraband. Indeed, BPD
officers found contraband twice as often when searching white individuals compared to
African Americans during vehicle stops and 50 percent more often during pedestrian
stops.
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond'">African Americans similarly accounted for 86 percent of all criminal offenses charged by
BPD officers despite making up only 63 percent of Baltimore residents.
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'CourierNewPSMT'">o </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond'">Racial disparities in BPD’s arrests are most pronounced for highly discretionary
offenses: African Americans accounted for 91 percent of the 1,800 people
charged solely with “failure to obey” or “trespassing”; 89 percent of the 1,350
charges for making a false statement to an officer; and 84 percent of the 6,500
people arrested for “disorderly conduct.” </span></p></div></div></div></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>