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SA( Preface to ‘Is Brutality a Serious Problem?’ )

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"Preface to 'Is Police Brutality a Serious Problem?'." Police Brutality, edited by Louise I. Gerdes, Greenhaven Press, 2004. Current Controversies. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010057125/OVIC?u=pl2020&xid=12fb5495. Accessed 7 Mar. 2017.

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In a statement, Scott’s family members said they’re profoundly disappointed by the decision not to charge Officer Vinson, who’s been on paid leave during the investigation.(Democracy Now)

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Kenneth Chamberlain Sr)
who was an Army veteran, had a medic alert necklace and, somehow, when he was sleeping, rolled over on it. The medical people, you know, called—this was not a police interaction—called—for support for him. That woke him up, when people were knocking at the door. He said he was OK, he didn’t want to open the door, not to worry. And they knocked down that door and killed him.
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Scott’s family says he was reading a book in his car in the parking lot, waiting to pick up his son after school, when he was approached by police officers. The dashboard camera video of the interaction, which was released after the protests, shows Scott exiting his vehicle and taking steps backwards with his arms at his sides.
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Keith Lamont Scott: "They shot my daddy 'cause he's black," she said. "He was sitting in his car reading a mother******* book. So they shot him. That's what happened." (Democracy Now)

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In North Carolina, a district attorney will not bring criminal charges against a Wake County police officer who was caught on video picking up a high school student and slamming her onto a concrete floor. Fifteen-year-old Jasmine Darwin, who is African-American, suffered a head injury after the assault by school resources officer Ruben De Los Santos. The officer announced last week he is resigning from the police force.
(No Charges)

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Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray went on to say the investigation found Scott had a gun at the scene of the shooting, although he admitted there was no evidence that Scott actually raised the gun at officers. North Carolina is an open-carry state, which means it’s legal to carry a gun. (Democracy Now)

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police fire four shots at Scott as he falls to the ground. In October, an independent autopsy ruled the shooting was a homicide.
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Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy who was fatally shot by police while playing with a toy pellet gun in a park.
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In Cleveland, three police officers will face disciplinary charges in the 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy who was fatally shot by police while playing with a toy pellet gun in a park. In late 2015, an Ohio grand jury decided there would be no criminal charges against the officers

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black men were actually killed by police at a rate higher than the U.S. murder rate in St. Louis last year.(of 2014)  That is true for 17 of the 100 largest cities in America.
(Mapping police Violence)

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police nationwide killed at least 1,152 people in 2015. In 14 cities, every single police victim was African-American.(Mapping Police Violence)

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A cop has no right or reason to know who you are, what you're doing or what history you may have if they don't have cause to arrest or cite you.

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Many modern police cars have cameras and software that automatically identify license plates, send the information request, and tell a police officer everything about you in real time. Typically including your picture, gender and race
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Police know they have the power to hit anyone at any time with a felony for resisting arrest, whether they had reason to attempt arrest in the first place or not.
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Officers with body cams:

One technical point: Every officer should have four cameras ... four tiny glass eyes. One on their vest, two on a headset facing forward and backward, and a fourth "gun camera" on their service weapon set to start recording any time the weapon is out of its holster.
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Putting on a uniform and jackboots doesn't change the basic morphology of the brain or basest parts of human nature.
( Rowe )

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If we're going to get anywhere at all, we have to accept that cops are humans, and humans will lie when it suits them. ( Rowe )

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in a courtroom, a police officer's word is literally law; even if a judge doesn't personally believe a word of what the cop says, he's bound by law to act as though he does.
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If an officer says it happened, then it happened, because he's "trained to observe." Note the subtle difference between "trained to observe" and "guaranteed not to lie."
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"But law enforcement officials should not be allowed to decide for themselves that desperate times call for desperate measures. The cost of adhering to fundamental safeguards may be high in some situations, but it is the price of upholding the constitutional values that distinguish us from our opponents. In order to uphold those values, we must make it clear to the police that they are not permitted to employ abusive interrogation practices including any form of torture."
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"But law enforcement officials should not be allowed to decide for themselves that desperate times call for desperate measures. The cost of adhering to fundamental safeguards may be high in some situations, but it is the price of upholding the constitutional values that distinguish us from our opponents. In order to uphold those values, we must make it clear to the police that they are not permitted to employ abusive interrogation practices including any form of torture."
( Preface to ‘Is Brutality a Serious Problem?’ )

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"But law enforcement officials should not be allowed to decide for themselves that desperate times call for desperate measures. The cost of adhering to fundamental safeguards may be high in some situations, but it is the price of upholding the constitutional values that distinguish us from our opponents. In order to uphold those values, we must make it clear to the police that they are not permitted to employ abusive interrogation practices including any form of torture."
( Rowe )

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Opponents of torture also argue that torture should never be permissible in a democratic society.
( Preface to ‘Is Brutality a Serious Problem?’ )

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"The assumption of ... 'torture advocates' is that the American state and its police agencies do not lie and are infallible, that those alleged to be guilty of crimes are indeed guilty of crimes, and that the FBI, CIA, and police forces in general should be given an entirely free hand." Walsh maintains that in numerous cases U.S. law enforcement has arrested and imprisoned innocent citizens, which proves that the police are not infallible and thus could end up torturing innocent people.
( Preface to ‘Is Brutality a Serious Problem?’ )