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Everything You Need to Know About the Department of Justice Report on APD Violence: A Readers\u2019 Guide | La Jicarita<\/a> By DAVID CORREIA<\/p>\n According to the report, APD engages in unconstitutional policing. A majority of fatal shootings were unjustified. And it\u2019s not just in the use of lethal force. The DOJ reviewed 200 reports of non-lethal force over a three-year period. \u2026 Among the 200 uses of non-lethal force, APD said less than 1% were unjustified. DOJ disagreed and concluded that more than one-third were unjustified. \u2026<\/p>\n In one example, 47 officers responded to the scene of a man \u2026 who was drunk and disorderly and arguing with a friend. [He] held a small knife, but dropped the knife when ordered. He attempted to flee. …<\/p>\n a pattern that the DOJ concluded revealed \u201cthe chain of command\u2019s disregard for detecting individual and aggregate patterns of unreasonable force by subordinates\u201d (p. 25).<\/p>\n In other words APD leadership actively endorses these violent, unjustified and unconstitutional practices by refusing to investigate the use of force, and perhaps even more troubling, by rewarding this behavior as \u201cexemplary.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Everything You Need to Know About the Department of Justice Report on APD Violence: A Readers\u2019 Guide | La Jicarita<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read it. Everything You Need to Know About the Department of Justice Report on APD Violence: A Readers\u2019 Guide | La Jicarita By DAVID CORREIA According to the report, APD engages in unconstitutional policing. A majority of fatal shootings were unjustified. And it\u2019s not just in the use of lethal force. The DOJ reviewed 200 … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About the Department of Justice Report on APD Violence: A Readers’ Guide | La Jicarita<\/span> \n