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Justice Department is not without its own racial biases

By | openforum@denverpost.com
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In this March 2016 file photo, Baltimore Police Department Officer Jordan Distance stands on a street corner during a foot patrol in Baltimore. Baltimore police officers routinely discriminate against blacks, repeatedly use excessive force and are not adequately held accountable for misconduct, according to a harshly critical Justice Department report presented Aug. 10, 2016.
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In this March 2016 file photo, Baltimore Police Department Officer Jordan Distance stands on a street corner during a foot patrol in Baltimore. Baltimore police officers routinely discriminate against blacks, repeatedly use excessive force and are not adequately held accountable for misconduct, according to a harshly critical Justice Department report presented Aug. 10, 2016.

Re: Aug. 10 news story.

Before progressives and other race-watchers rush to their moral high ground, a word of caution: the Department of Justice is not without its own racial biases. This has been evident since Eric Holder became the country’s attorney general, and the department’s overly aggressive involvement in the Trayvon Martin case, Ferguson and every subsequent white-on-black shooting throughout the U.S. With regard to the current report, bear in mind that the crime problems in Baltimore are centered in the black community, not the white, and only aggressive preventive policing — not PC platitudes — has any chance of lowering the crime rate. Take your pick.

James McLay,Evergreen

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