(CNN) -- Nine months after a Justice Department investigation castigated Puerto Rico's police department, another exhaustive report, this one by the American Civil Liberties Union, discloses evidence of widespread abuses and violations of civil rights. The Puerto Rico Police Department, the second-largest police department in the United States, was the object of a scathing report by the ACLU that concluded things have not changed since the government issued its own report. The 17,000-strong department "is a dysfunctional and recalcitrant police force that has run amok for years," the report said. The organization found routine use of excessive force and incidents of civil and human rights violations, especially against low-income people, Puerto Ricans of African descent and Dominican immigrants.
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The ACLU says it found a pattern of civil rights violations by Puerto Rican police
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A government investigation had a similar conclusion last year
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Puerto Rico says it is already working to fix the problems
Puerto Rico's secretary of state called the @placeholder report a "rehash" of what the federal government had already found, and said that changes are already under way.