Police Brutality Statistics. Free Searches Criminal RecordsDUI OffensesMuch More ========= Multi-Author AdSense ========= Skipped due to there being 3 AdSense ads on this page already ======================================== The following statistics were compiled by the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project on Police Brutality cases that happened between April 2009 – June 2010. if you talk to a police officer, they will try their hardest to convince you that bad cops are few and far between and there are only a few bad apples.
The following information presented in the graphic below really puts a dent in that theory. Related Infographic: A Neutral Look at Police Brutality A Neutral Look at Police Brutality, shared with CopBlock.org by Matthew Pelletier of cites outlets such as DOJ's National Criminal Justice Reference Service for a somewhat inside look behind the thin blue line. July 3, 2012 In "Articles" Lost In The Rhetoric, What Cops Think Is Appropriate Lacks Common Sense September 26, 2015.
RODNEY KING - The L.A. Riots: 15 Years After Rodney King. While driving down the 210 freeway in Los Angeles with two friends, Rodney King was detected speeding by the California Highway Patrol.
Fearing that his probation for a robbery offense would be revoked because of the traffic violation, King led the CHP on a high-speed chase, eventually hitting 115 miles per hour, according to the police. By the time he was caught and ordered to exit his vehicle, several L.A.P.D. squad cars had arrived on the scene. A struggle ensued, and some of the officers quickly decided that King was resisting arrest. Sergeant Stacey Koon fired two shots into King with a TASER gun, and after that failed to subdue him, the officers, including Laurence Powell, beat him mercilessly with their batons. In the midst of the harrowing violence, King nervously uttered the phrase that would forever be synonymous with him and the riot: "Can we all just get along? " His sudden fame didn't make things much easier for King.
—Madison Gray Next REGINALD DENNY. 5 Alabama police officers fired over beating caught on camera. 5 Alabama police officers fired over beating caught on camera. (CNN) -- Five police officers brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later.
Video shows one black and four white officers beating and kicking unconscious man ejected from car. The five officers have been fired, Mayor Larry Langford said at a news conference Wednesday. An internal inquiry is continuing. The dashboard-cam footage, which officials believe was shot in January 2008, was aired for reporters Wednesday. It showed the end of a 100-mile-an-hour police chase of a van driven by Anthony Warren, suspected of illegal drug activity.
Police had chased the van almost 50 miles, winding from downtown Birmingham to suburban Hoover. Warren was ejected from the van and stopped moving. Watch the tape that lead to the officers' dismissal » A police mug shot taken five days after the beating was posted on the Web site of The Birmingham News. Rodney King tape on national news.flv.