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Civil Rights Coalition Urges National Reforms and Recommendations to Address Police ... Page 1 of 3 <br />CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION URGES NATIONAL REFORMS AND <br />RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADDRESS POLICE ABUSE <br />A coalition of national civil and human rights organizations and leaders concerned about police abuse <br />commends last week's announcement by Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. launching the <br />Department of Justice's (DOJ) National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. The <br />initiative will enlist a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five <br />U.S. cities and will focus on training to reduce bias and ensure fairness in law enforcement. The group <br />also applauds the federal investigation by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division of the Ferguson, Missouri, <br />Police Department following the August 9, 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African <br />American teenager, by a Darren Wilson, a white police officer. The weeks following Mr. Brown's death <br />have seen protests, unrest and further police - related incidents in the area, underscoring a deep schism <br />between the police and the communities they are supposed to protect and serve. <br />Lawyers' Committee President and Executive Director Barbara Arnwine and Public Policy Director <br />Tanya Clay House, originally convened 14 national civil and human rights organizations and leaders to <br />issue a Unified Statement of Action to Promote Reform and Stop Police Abuse on August 18, 2014. Two <br />of the coalition's recommendations have come to fruition: an independent and comprehensive <br />investigation by the DOJ of Michael Brown's shooting death and the use of body -worn cameras by <br />Ferguson police officers. The group continues to call for the use of police officer body -worn cameras <br />nationally and commends the White House's recent announcement of testing of body -worn cameras by <br />the U.S. Border Patrol. Notably, five additional groups, including the National Organization of Black <br />Law Enforcement Executives, and more than 340 independent signatories, have joined the open letter <br />which was sent to the White House and the DOJ. <br />The coalition is also encouraged by Attorney General Holder's emphasis on the need for diversity across <br />police departments and his description of the proactive steps that the DOJ has taken to engage the St. <br />Louis County Police Department during his remarks regarding the civil rights investigation. Yet while <br />the investigation of Mr. Brown's death, as well as the racial bias study and its associated results are <br />significant steps forward, the groups continue to call upon the DOJ, FBI, and police departments across <br />the country to comprehensively address the ongoing killing of unarmed African American and Latino <br />youth and adults by police and civilians alike that may have been motivated by racial bias, and to effect <br />universal and long -term systemic reform to end police killings and the use of excessive force. In <br />addition, the group continues to urge release of the federal racial profiling guidance, improved <br />community policing, federal oversight of the distribution of federal weaponry and Congressional <br />hearings on the use of excessive and deadly force by police. <br />The coalition, which remains in conversation with the White House, the DOJ, Ferguson and St. Louis <br />County officials, and community groups and leaders, will continue to closely monitor related police - <br />involved shootings and brutality nationwide. Likewise, the group will remain a vital part of ongoing <br />reforms, recommendations and actions. <br />Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO, NAACP: <br />http: / /www.naacp.org /news /entry /civil- rights - coalition- urges - national - refonns- and - recom... 12/l/2014 <br />
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