Police Download ReportUnited States police brutality cases continues to increase
An article by Black Press USA claims police brutality cases are on the rise in the US. I for one believe this is true, but sadly the article lacks any serious statistics to back the claims up.
From New American Media:
Fifteen years after the Los Angeles police videotaped beating of Rodney King sensitized America about police brutality, some civil rights advocates say cops are still out of control in Black neighborhoods and the violence appears to be increasing with the institution of anti-terror measures.‘‘The heightened so-called war on terrorism I think that is fueling police aggression,’‘ says Diop Kamau, a former Hawthorne, Calif. police detective and executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Police Complaint Center.
‘‘I think that the president’s choice with regards to torture, the attack on habeas corpus, the kind of things that we’re doing overseas, I think, are actually impacting domestic police policies.
‘‘I think the green light with regards to spying and everything else, what it has done is elevated the role and the public’s regard for law enforcement to the attitude that says, ‘Those are our protectors. We need to take the gloves off and give them the room to do what they need to do,’ Well, they’re not always fighting terrorists, and they’re not always arresting bad guys. More often than not they’re dealing with regular people for small and minor incidents.’‘
And they’re disproportionately Black.
