Policing & state violence
The United States sues Philadelphia over its police
Rizzo commissioner from 1967 and mayor 1972-80; federal suit filed 13 August 1979, dismissed 30 October 1979The Philadelphia Police Department, city-wide, PA
In 1979 the Justice Department sued a city over police brutality for the first time, naming Philadelphia, Mayor Frank Rizzo and eighteen officials. A federal court threw it out: no statute let the government bring such a case.
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