the justice department has found - after a two year investigation - that the cleveland pd uses unnecessary and unreasonable force constantly. this has verified black residents of the city’s issues with the police department there.
“While Cleveland is 53 percent black and 37 percent white, its 1,551-person police department is almost the reverse image:25 percent black and 65 percent white, the latest data shows. The department’s new chief is African-American.
Anger among many blacks in Cleveland toward the police has risen in recent weeks after the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old African-American boy, Tamir Rice, on Nov. 22 by an officer within two seconds after arriving in a patrol car.”