Not one police department in 20 largest US cities compliant with international rights laws: report
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Independent UK) Use-of-force policies in police departments in 20 of the largest cities in the US failed to meet even minimum standards under international human rights guidelines, according to a report from the University of Chicago Law School.
The report from the law schools International Human Rights Clinic, highlights American policings difficulty balancing power with maintaining basic human rights, and the chasm between law enforcement in the US and elsewhere.
Officers are too broadly given discretion for lethal force, effectively authorising state-sanctioned violence and the exercise of arbitrary brute force, a common tool of tyrannical and despotic governments, the report says. ............(more)
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