article_snippet: (CNN)A new Justice Department report on Ferguson's police and courts could not be more clear: Change is needed.
article_snippet: (CNN)A new Justice Department report on Ferguson's police and courts details widespread and systemic discrimination against blacks at the hands of officials -- painting probably the clearest picture yet of what the rule of law looks and feels like in the Missouri city.
article_snippet: The 102-page report details widespread and systemic discrimination against blacks at the hands of officials -- painting probably the clearest picture yet of what the rule of law looks and feels like in the Missouri city includes 26 recommendations.
article_snippet: (CNN)A new Justice Department report on Ferguson's police and courts is scathing in The 102-page report details widespread and systemic discrimination against blacks at the hands of officials -- painting probably the clearest picture yet of what the rule of law looks and feels like in the Missouri city critique, and clear about what needs to happen next, but The 102-page report details widespread and systemic discrimination against blacks at the hands of officials -- painting probably the clearest picture yet of what the rule of law looks and feels like in the Missouri city doesn't address the question: Who, if anyone, is responsible for what took place?
article_snippet: Are individual officers to blame?
article_snippet: What about city officials who repeatedly pushed police to increase revenue through ticketing, resulting in disproportionate targeting of African-Americans?
article_snippet: The Ferguson police department and municipal courts will have to reform.
article_snippet: Justice Department Justice officials informed the city of Ferguson that a review of city emails uncovered explicit racial bias by three individuals who are employed by the city of Ferguson police department.
article_snippet: Let me be clear: This type of behavior will not be tolerated in the Ferguson police department or in any department in the city of Ferguson," Ferguson told reporters Wednesday.
article_snippet: You read the Justice Department report, and, one officer loses one officer job?
article_snippet: You know, you translate the bureaucratic gobbledygook of the mayor, that's all that happened there," one officer said.
article_snippet: But if the Justice Department gets the Justice Department way, illegal or improper behavior on the part of police and courts in Ferguson could soon be a thing of the past.
article_snippet: It is time for Ferguson's leaders to take immediate, wholesale and structural corrective action," said Attorney General Eric Holder.