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When informed on the level of police corruption or excessive violence, most people believe that there are simply too many cases of police corruption to accept | ||
| Because of the respect society has for the police because of the sacrifices they make, it is difficult to face up to some bad officers | |||
| While there are cases of police brutality in nearly every major city, the vast majority of police follow the law, do their job, & are not racist | |||
| With regards to police corruption, a few bad cops are poisoning the well | |||
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In Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1999, a black was man killed by police for traffic violation |
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The Diallo Case occurred in 1999 when in NYC, an unarmed innocent African immigrant, Amadou Diallo, was shot by police |
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| When 19 hit their mark, Amadou Diallo dies | |||
| See Also: Time: Cops, Brutality, & Race |
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| The LA Corruption Case occurred from 1999 - 2000 when in LA the LAPD was discovered fixing cases against minority defendants. |
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| When an LAPD cop is caught, he blows whistle on widespread corruption, testifying that the LAPD regularly fixed cases | |||
| See Also: CNN: Attorneys: The L.A. police scandal could affect more than 3,000 cases, freeing both innocent & guilty parties |
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See Also: Time: The Motives Behind the LAPD's Mea Culpa |
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In NYC in 1997, a Haitian immigrant, Louima, was sodomized by police & had to be hospitalized |
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| In the Louima case, a NYC policeman was sentenced to 30 years for torture | |||
| See Also: CNN: NYC Police Corruption |
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In 1994 in LA, a black man named Rodney King, was beaten unconscious by Police before a video camera |
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The Police were acquitted by a jury in a local court |
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The LA Riot resulted from the acquittal of the Police for the beating of Rodney King |
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Several of the Police were later found guilty by a Federal Court of the violation of Rodney King's civil rights |
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Miami Police racism has been well documented w/ national attention to abuses in 1980 & 1989 |
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| In the 1990s, after a lengthy investigation, the NJ HP was found to have given a lot more tickets to Blacks, though they did not speed any more than others | |||
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DWB is jargon which developed in the Black community & has spread to the general culture which recognizes the existence Police Prejudice |
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