The Philadelphia Police Department has a Racism Problem

ACLU of Pennsylvania
3 min readJun 6, 2019

By Reggie Shuford, Executive Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania

The job of a police officer is to serve and protect the community, no matter the racial, ethnic, religious, or socio-economic status of that community. Real justice is blind, and police officers are the front-line arbiters of justice in America.

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