No justice in Southern Ohio -- charges rarely sought in civil rights cases

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From the Cincinnati Enquirer

Civil rights cases rarely get to court
Only 4% prosecuted in S. Ohio; weak evidence blamed

By Dan Horn
Enquirer staff writer

Federal authorities in southern Ohio decline to prosecute 96 percent of the civil rights cases they investigate - from deaths in police custody to complaints about racially motivated attacks.

Civil rights laws have been used for decades to rein in the Ku Klux Klan, to protect civil rights marchers and to punish police who abuse their power.

But in the past five years, federal records show, prosecutors in southern Ohio and across the country have rarely sought charges under those laws. Nationally, 95 percent of the civil rights cases that the FBI investigated and referred to prosecutors never made it to court....

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