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etherealtruth

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5. To me that is an extremely important point

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 05:25 PM

Dec 2014

Police brutality can't be measured solely by the number of people they "kill" (a number can't differentiate between 'suicide by cop' or police brutality).

A good place to start are body cam's and cruiser cams.... this is a place to begin the process of revamping the way 'we' police in the US.

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Things I would like to know about police violence in the US [View all] Recursion Dec 2014 OP

Amazingly enough, those figures are not reported to a central place, and so they can only djean111 Dec 2014 #1

that information would be readily available in any nation... Adam051188 Dec 2014 #2

Why? Igel Jan 2015 #7

accesibility of information is absolutely a top priority in any democratic organization. Adam051188 Jan 2015 #11

Not even kill, how many people have they kicked or bone breaking punched in the face? countless. Sunlei Dec 2014 #3

To me that is an extremely important point etherealtruth Dec 2014 #5

Dec 12th Congress passed the Death In Custody Reporting Act which will require the gathering of Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #4

The Death in Custody Reporting Act was originally passed in 2000, Downwinder Dec 2014 #6

Yep, and it expired in 2006 prior to the first data being complied, and it sat for 7 years until Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #10

Yes. The info would be good. Igel Jan 2015 #8

I actually follow police killings as part of my job. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2015 #9