Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they're unlikely to be held accountable.
Oakland police appear to have violated their own guidelines, and now they're refusing to release documents to civil rights attorneys as required by law.
Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence. September 26, 2011.
To what do the protesters owe the sudden interest from the mainstream media? Scenes of protesters being dragged by their hair and pepper-sprayed in the face.
The growing accessibility of recording devices is prompting officials to dig up dusty old eavesdropping laws that are being used to intimidate the nation's citizens.
Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. December 30, 2010.
The depressing Jon Burge saga in Chicago reinforces the notion that racial bias is part of the institutional gene pool of the nation's police departments.
Some of the most egregious examples of taser abuse by police around the country, illustrating why the willy-nilly increase of taser use is terrible for citizens.
University of Maryland police brutality case is a sobering reminder that an officer's word can carry tremendous weight against that of an average person.
