article_snippet.sent: The police's findings will go to the state's attorney's office, where prosecutors will decide whether charges should be filed.
article_snippet.sent: Rawlings-Blake asked for an outside investigation, given the city's dark history of police misconduct.
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. Justice Department, which announced a collaborative reform initiative with Baltimore police in October in light of its past problems, is looking into the Gray case, a spokesman said last week.
article_snippet.sent: The point of that federal investigation will be to gauge whether a prosecutable civil rights violation may have occurred.
article_snippet.sent: What we don't know: What information that investigators, both local and federal, will turn up and when.