Representatives from two U.S. Department of Justice field offices are in Cincinnati to listen to city leaders and citizens' concerns about this week's civil unrest.

        “It is not an investigation,” said Patricia Glenn of the Department of Justice's Community Relations Service office in Chicago. “We meet with as many parties as we can (in) a dispute.”

        Ms. Glenn and Gustavo Gaynett of the Detroit office have been in town since Wednesday. They've put in 12-hour days, and Ms. Glenn said they would stay “until we see there's no need for us.”

        Ms. Glenn said the Community Relations Service was formed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

        Ms. Glenn said team members can go wherever there is unrest “with ethnic or racial overtones,” but she said Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell sent a letter requesting their services.

        “We spend as much time as we need,” Ms. Glenn said. “We don't want to recommend some kind of canned formula.”

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