By Michael Nam
After Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake requested that the Justice Department fully investigate the Baltimore Police Department, the Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that federal investigators are conducting a civil rights probe into the city’s police practices.
The investigation is to run concurrently with criminal investigations at both the state and federal level into the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man killed in police custody, as well as with the policing reform efforts underway. The Justice Department probe will address the separate issue of overall institutional problems within the police department.
