Police brutality in the United States

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title: Police brutality in the United States
text: Police brutality is the use of excessive or unwarranted force by law enforcement against civilians. Police brutality involves physical or psychological harm to a person and can involve beatings, killing, intimidation tactics, racist abuse, and torture. In the 2000s, the federal government attempted tracking the number of people killed in interactions with US police, but the program was defunded. In 2006, a law was passed to require reporting of homicides at the hands of the police, but many poli
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description: Use of excessive force by a police officer
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United_States
date created: 2010-05-04T16:09:44Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T22:01:44Z
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