Article: Excessive Force By Police Officers

Staci Bush
Sacramento Observer
09-20-1995
Excessive Force By Police Officers.

In many small towns, including some of the nation's largest cities, race appears to remain a salient factor in the use of excessive force by the police. For example, the Christopher Commission's investigation of the Los Angeles Police Department noted that nearly one-quarter of the police officers polled in a police department survey agreed that "racial bias on the part of officers toward minority citizens currently exists and contributes to a negative interaction between police and the community."

This same survey showed that 27 percent of the officers agreed "an officer's prejudice towards the suspect's race may ...

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