AP Interview: Feds launch policing bias study (Holder’s bias prevails)

Associated Press ^ | Sep 16, 2014 10:54 PM EDT | Eric Tucker

[Olog-hai]

Broadening its push to improve police relations with minorities, the Justice Department has enlisted a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five American cities and recommend strategies to address the problem nationally, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

The police shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri underscored the need for the long-planned initiative, Holder said in an interview with The Associated Press.

He said the three-year project could be a “silver lining” if it helps ease racial tensions and “pockets of distrust that show up between law enforcement and the communities that they serve.”

“What I saw in Ferguson confirmed for me that the need for such an effort was pretty clear,” Holder said. …

[Rembrandt]

I predict a massive backfire for The Messiah on this.

[capydick]

If this policing bias study is allowed to progress in an unbiased manner - he aint gonna like the results.

And, policing bias? The team name alone seems to already have a pre determined outcome. The only bias in the majority of these cities is against criminals.

[dalebert]

wasting tax dollars needed elsewhere?

[Olog-hai]

Never mind borrowed money.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I imagine they could recommend that, when a minority sticks up a bank, the cops have to arrest 9 white guys along with the perp. That should make them happy.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

A 3-year project to count white cops, black cops, and state that there are too many white cops so dey be racist. Triple the annual budget of Ferguson, MO will be spent on this study, count on it, with the results known in advance.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Pockets of distrust show up between law enforcement and criminals.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That is excellent!

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, it sounds like the study starts with the assumption that police bias exists.

It fits in with Obama's pledge to spread the wealth around. In this case, to make it easier to spread wealth from "crackers" to "Holder's people" by making the police less likely to interfere with criminals.