Friday, February 10, 2012

Police Brutality On the Rise

Photo Credit: Simon Howden
Is it just me or does police violence seem to be on the rise? I was trying to figure out if I am just more aware of it or if it's actually happening more and more. I decided to look into it a bit and I've found some interesting articles and news stories which assert just that.

This first article talks about a federal crack down on police violence. It ran August of 2011 and revealed that 20 different police departments around the nation are under federal investigation for civil rights violations. Read the full story here.

Here is another article last year, again in August, about a rise in police violence in Chicago.  The Independent Police Review Authority issued a report about the startling rise in violence in the Chicago police department. You can read their full report here. 16 death by police shooting at the publish date, so about 2 people a month gunned down!

In November of 2011 this story ran covering an investigation at the University of Berkeley. This came on the heels of stories of  police violence against peaceful Occupy protesters.The reports were pretty awful and again, this made national news.

Here are some more highlights:

What do you think, reader - are police becoming more violent? 

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