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Police brutality is the deliberate use of excessive force, usually physical, carried out during law enforcement activities with the population. This type of behavior also includes verbal attacks and psychological intimidation by a police officer.
Widespread police brutality exists in many countries, even those that prosecute it. It is one of several forms of police misconduct, which include: false arrest; intimidation; racial profiling; political repression; surveillance abuse; sexual abuse; and police corruption. Although illegal, it can be performed under the color of law.
The word "brutality" has several meanings; the sense used here (savage cruelty) was first used in 1633. The term "police brutality" was in use in the American press as early as 1872, when the Chicago Tribune reported on the beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station.
The origin of 'modern' policing based on the authority of the nation state is commonly traced back to developments in seventeenth and 18th century France, with modern police departments being established in most nations by the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cases of police brutality appear to have been frequent then, with "the routine bludgeoning of citizens by patrolmen armed with nightsticks or blackjacks." Large-scale incidents of brutality were associated with labor strikes, such as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Lawrence textile strike of 1912, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, the Steel strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe massacre of 1924.
In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object. In other words, a force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can also be described by intuitive concepts such as a push or a pull. A force has both magnitude and direction, making it a vector quantity. It is measured in the SI unit of newtons and represented by the symbol F.
The original form of Newton's second law states that the net force acting upon an object is equal to the rate at which its momentum changes with time. If the mass of the object is constant, this law implies that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on the object, is in the direction of the net force, and is inversely proportional to the mass of the object
Related concepts to force include: thrust, which increases the velocity of an object; drag, which decreases the velocity of an object; and torque, which produces changes in rotational speed of an object. In an extended body, each part usually applies forces on the adjacent parts; the distribution of such forces through the body is the so-called mechanical stress. Pressure is a simple type of stress. Stress usually causes deformation of solid materials, or flow in fluids.
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A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing.
Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some societies, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these developed within the context of maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. Many police forces suffer from police corruption to a greater or lesser degree. The police force is usually a public sector service, meaning they are paid through taxes.
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In a Team 5 Investigates exclusive, claims of excessive force are investigated after local police officers use almost every tool available except deadly force on a combative prisoner. Subscribe to WCVB on YouTube now for more: http://bit.ly/1e8lAMZ Get more Boston news:http://wcvb.com/ Like us: https://www.facebook.com/wcvb5 Follow us: https://twitter.com/WCVB Google+: https://plus.google.com/+wcvb
► Subscribe to PoliceCenter: https://goo.gl/jR7Abo Corpus Christi, TX - Police Chief Floyd Simpson has placed two officers on paid leave as the department looks into allegations excessive force was used during the arrest of triple murder suspect Sammuel Toomey. The department played dashcam video of the arrest for reporters this afternoon. The video starts with two officers keeping Toomey on the ground as backup arrives. He's told to stop resisting, but says he is not. An officer can be seen using his foot and knee to keep Toomey's head still on the ground as he is face up and face down in the grass. Then as Toomey was taken to the police car, officers hit his head on the push bar. Sammuel Toomey had two bruised eyes and a scratched up face when he went before a magistrate on Monday. ...
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday the Justice Department will investigate the Baltimore Police Department's use of excessive force. Follow : http://www.twitter.com/ See more at http://www.newsy.com Transcript: "We felt that the best thing to do was to conduct an investigation to see if violations rose to the level of charges," U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. The Justice Department has launched a federal investigation to determine whether the Baltimore Police Department engaged in "a pattern or practice" of excessive force. Loretta Lynch was in Baltimore this week — her first official trip as attorney general. (Video via WMAR) There she met with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake who, along with Maryland's congressional delegation, had called for a f...
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Attorney General Eric Holder answer questions at a press conference presenting findings of the Department of Justice have a pattern of unreasonable use of force by the Cleveland police. “Accountability and legitimacy are essential for communities to trust their police departments, and for there to be genuine collaboration between police and the citizens they serve,” says Holder. Comments are made by Vanita Gupta is Acting Assistant Attorney General and a civil rights lawyer. Opening remarks from Steve Dettelback, U.S. Attorney General for Northern Ohio. Full story at WEWS: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/attorney-general-eric-holder-holds-cleveland-forum-on-building-trust-between-police-communities The investigation found Cle...
BALTIMORE -- City officials are still digesting the findings of a long-awaited federal investigation that paints an ugly picture of discriminatory practices from within the Baltimore Police Department. The U.S. Department of Justice launched its pattern or practice investigation after the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent riots in Baltimore City. At a news conference Wednesday morning, DOJ released its findings that detail case after case in which African-Americans were unconstitutionally stopped, searched and assaulted by officers. In one case, the report points to an African-American man who officers stopped 30 times in four years without issuing him a citation. At the morning conference, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said he could understand public outrage about the report'...
Vanita Gupta addresses the Department of Justice investigation of the Cleveland Division of police and its use of force which began in March of 2013 and concluded after the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. DOJ determined a pattern and practice of unreasonable and excessive of force. Confidence between community and police department is a national problem, Gupta says. Findings are in part: Officers fired guns at people who did not pose "an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to officers or others." -- Officers used guns in a "careless and dangerous manner." -- Officers used stun guns and pepper spray instead of trying to de-escalate situations. -- Officers arrested and assaulted mentally ill people after family members called police for help. -- Off...
St. Petersburg, FL - An officer has resigned after surveillance video caught him using unnecessary force on a suspect. Chief Holloway recently convened a Command Review Board to review allegations of misconduct against employees with the St. Pete Police Department. One of these allegations was regarding Officer Andrew Cane. On Aug. 20, during an arrest near 211 3rd St. N., Officer Cane used unnecessary force while detaining a suspect. Surveillance video from a nearby business caught it all on camera. The subject arrested was not injured, nor did he file a complaint, however Officer Cane resigned before the conclusion of the Command Review Board. Other complaints sustained include improper procedures and falsification. Officer Cane was sworn into the force in 2011.
Attorney General Eric Holder issues statement regarding Department of Justice investigation of Cleveland Police Department's use of excessive force. "In recent days millions of people throughout our nation have come together bound by grief and bound by anguish in response to the tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City. Now, as I announced last night, the United States Department of Justice is currently conducting an independent thoroughfare expeditious civil rights investigation into each of these incidents. As President Obama and I have indicated, the time has come, we think, to do even more. The tragic losses of these and far too many other Americans, including just last month the shooting death of 12-year old Tamir Rice here in Cleveland ha...
Cleveland’s police department has been under scrutiny since long before the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and has now been put under federal oversight. A Justice Dept. investigation found that it systematically “engages in a pattern and practice of the use of excessive force” against civilians. AJ+ looks at the other U.S. cities under federal oversight. Download the AJ+ app at http://www.ajplus.net/ Subscribe for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3Nm3T-XAgVhKH9jT0ViRg?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajplus Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ajpluscommunity Learn more about AJ+: http://www.ajplus.net/
Only on Fox: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into claims of excessive force involving the 23rd Judicial Drug Task Force. Cell phone video obtained by Fox 17 News shows what one man claims to be excessive force. The three minute video shows two men restraining a third man then appear to strike him in the face several times after he had been handcuffed. In the video you can hear a female yelling for the men to stop. The two men with Drug Task Force were looking into a possible meth lab on Eno Road in Dickson. In an affidavit obtained by Fox 17 News one of the men admits to striking the man multiple times because the man was refusing to obey commands. The man in the video claims the officers used excessive force.The officers say they found meth and marijuana in his pockets an...
The Justice Department announced today that it found reasonable cause to believe that the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) engages in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution as well as federal anti-discrimination laws. BPD makes stops, searches and arrests without the required justification; uses enforcement strategies that unlawfully subject African Americans to disproportionate rates of stops, searches and arrests; uses excessive force; and retaliates against individuals for their constitutionally-protected expression. The pattern or practice results from systemic deficiencies that have persisted within BPD for many years and has exacerbated community distrust of the police, particularly in the African-American community....
THE G-MAN INTERVIEWS: TRISTAN BONN Says Corruption, Racism and Excessive Force Rampant Within the Omaha Police Department MAY 11, 2013 - MAJOR UPDATE REGARDING THIS EPISODE: TWO OFFICERS, AND PERHAPS MORE TO COME, WERE CHARGED THE WEEK OF MAY 6TH WITH EVIDENCE TAMPERING IN THE JOHNSON BROTHERS CASE, AND THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY THE OFFICERS AND THE DEPARTMENT. Welcome. Tristan Bonn graduated from the University of Arizona in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1985, she attended Creighton University and graduated with a Juris Doctorate. Her education and training concluded at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where she earned a Master of Arts in History in 2000. She has taught both civil and ...
CREDIT: Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGd4pRIXLg5jNJfn5rSTRw KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: http://policecrimes.com/police.html - The Supreme Court recommends that you DON'T talk to police officers before or after you're arrested, but you must say out loud "I'M GOING TO REMAIN SILENT." To the Police: You Are NOT the Enemy (Unless You Choose to Be.) On July 14, 2016 On July 14, 2016 In Brenham Texas a chase begun when a female stole a car. Officer Richard Bobbitt who was on the Brenham Police force for 6 years initiated the pursuit that ended up traveling 60 miles across Three counties until the chase ended near Harris County line. This video is from the Texas Trooper Dash Cam. After nearly and hour chase Harris County Deputies put spike strips down to deflat...
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Body camera video released shows a police officer using "disturbing," excessive force, according to city leaders in Greensboro, North Carolina. After releasing the video, city council members voted 8-0 in favor of a resolution calling for the permanent suspension of former Greensboro officer Travis Cole's law enforcement certification. The video shows Cole displaying "wrongful conduct" during an incident on June 17. When city leaders released the video during a press conference Monday, several people applauded. The incident began with Cole and another officer responding to a possible breaking and entering call. When they arrived at the house, Dejuan Yourse was sitting on the porch. Body cameras on both Cole and his partner captured what happened next, now described...
http://acabpolicestate.weebly.com/ Watch Greensboro leaders release ‘disturbing’ body camera video of former police officer Body camera video released Monday by city leaders shows a former Greensboro police officer using "disturbing" excessive force. City council members also on Monday voted 8-0 in favor of a resolution calling for the permanent suspension of former Greensboro officer Travis Cole's law enforcement certification. The video shows Cole displaying "wrongful conduct" during an incident on June 17. When city leaders released the video during a press conference Monday, several people applauded. The incident began with Cole and another officer responding to a possible breaking and entering call. When they arrived at the house, Dejuan Yourse was sitting on the porch. Body camer...
After a 16-month investigation into the Albuquerque Police Department's use of force, the Department of Justice announced Thursday that APD engaged in a pattern of excessive force during the past four years.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS read: http://policecrimes.com/police.html - The Supreme Court recommends that you DON'T talk to police officers before or after you're arrested, but you must say out loud "I'M GOING TO REMAIN SILENT." To the Police: You Are NOT the Enemy (Unless You Choose to Be.) The inmate lay on the floor sobbing, and Officer Eric Allen decided he’d had enough. “Put her in a wrist lock,” he tells another jail officer at the Metropolitan Detention Center, “and twist her wrist until she shuts up and stops crying.” It doesn’t work. Almost nothing does. The inmate – a petite woman named Susie Chavez – spends the next 45 minutes shrieking, sobbing and crying out in pain as Allen and other officers escort her to a medical unit. The crying starts after Chavez is hit with a stun gun to th...
Ferguson police, the response from Obama, sexual crimes, and the fictionalized account of investigation in the novel WITHOUT CONSENT are all discussed with Jim Clemente in this Crime Time. We explore the specialized training for real sexual crimes investigation, and look into the Ferguson police firestorm at length--with attention paid to excessive force, media coverage, and ongoing protests--plus much more in this uncensored look behind the scenes of investigation and media, hosted by Allison Hope Weiner. GUEST BIO: Jim Clemente is a retired FBI agent and current advisor, writer and producer for the TV series "Criminal Minds." A graduate of Fordham University School of Law, Jim was the head of the Child Sex Crimes Prosecution Team in Bronx County for the New York City Law Department. ...
** Subscribe for more: https://goo.gl/5clm0J ** Footage of a California family's argument with the local sheriff's department has now been made public as part of an excessive lawsuit, after one of the cops body slammed one of the teenage girls to the ground. The incident occurred on June 14, 2015, on a rural property in Sonoma County, however the footage only surfaced this week as the case was presented in court. According to the sheriff's office, Deputy Marcus Holton stopped at the house in Petaluma after he saw a truck stopped in the middle of the street and heard people fighting. Footage taken from a body cam Holton was wearing - posted to YouTube on Thursday - shows four women arguing with Holton for several minutes, assuring him there was no issue. The verbal confrontation continues...
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