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- Police Brutality: An Epidemic In America - University of San Diego“Police brutality costs $1.8 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s most recently available data (2010).” (Merelli) They are willing to spend billions to cover up the issues that go on within the force but won’t fund that money to enact change within the system.
- Police Violence - Amnesty InternationalThe term “police brutality” is sometimes used to refer to various human rights violations by police. This might include beatings, racial abuse, unlawful killings, torture, or indiscriminate use of riot control agents at protests.
- Police Brutality: What Is It, Why It Happens, Examples - Verywell MindPolice brutality refers to the excessive use of force by a police officer against a victim or victims that is deemed to go beyond the level required to sustain life, avoid injury, or control a situation. 1 Most encounters with the police do not involve violence.
- Report: Black people are still killed by police at a higher rate than ...According to data collected by The Washington Post, police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the most since the newspaper began tracking fatal shootings by officers in...
- Why Is Police Brutality Still Happening? - The New York TimesSix years ago this August, Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old who had just graduated from high school, was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. His death, along with those of so...
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