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Article: China's report slams violence, misconduct in law enforcement in US
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 3, 2005
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China's report slams violence, misconduct in law enforcement in US
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- American citizens are threatened by
rampant violent crimes and severe infringement of civil rights by law
enforcement departments, said the Human Rights Record of the United
States in 2004 issued here Thursday.
"Violent crimes pose a serious threat to people's lives," said the
report issued by the Information Office of the State Council, China's
cabinet.
The record quoted the Department of Justice of the United States
on Nov. 29, 2004 as saying that in 2003 residents aged 12 and above
in the United States came across about 24 million cases of crimes,