Four legal organizations and two Buffalo activist groups have filed a complaint requesting a federal review of the Buffalo Police Department for what they describe as misconduct, abuses of authority and civil rights violations.
The complaint was sent to the U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York in Buffalo, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and claims that many of these alleged patterns of unconstitutional and unlawful discrimination by law enforcement occur particularly in Black and Latino communities in Buffalo.
Two Buffalo police officers and a mental health technician who are suing the city say they want the department to change the way it deals with racism or hate speech on the force.
Buffalo Residents for Council Accountability and Black Lives Matter Buffalo Chapter are among the entities that say the Buffalo police have not adequately improved their conduct in recent years despite beginning implicit bias training, introducing technologies like Tasers and body-worn cameras and public dissatisfaction being expressed with policing in the city by local activists and politicians.
“While BPD has claimed to have instituted measures in recent years to mitigate implicit bias and to end its tolerance of misconduct,…
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