News tagged with excessive force

Racial profiling, killings of arrestees by local police increase: study

Deadly police shootings, racial profiling and discriminatory law enforcement are once again in the forefront of national debate. Police killings of unarmed civilians in New Orleans and Seattle have generated local protests ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Apr 17, 2012 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

Excessive police violence evident in emergency care cases, say US doctors

Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal.

Medicine & Health / Other

Dec 24, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 4