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This list compiles incidents alleged or proved to be due to police brutality that attracted significant media or historical attention. Many cases are alleged to be of brutality; some cases are more than allegations, with official reports concluding that a crime was committed by police, with some criminal convictions for offences such as grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest.
Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Public Database; List of cases of police brutality; List of countries with annual rates and counts for killings by law enforcement officers; List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States; List of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States
Map of per capita police killings in the United States in 2018. [1]Below are lists of people killed by law enforcement in the United States, both on duty and off duty. . Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect the
Police brutality is an issue even today, and its victims have a hard time proving their case: according to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an NGO standing up against injustice by the authorities, only 4% of the victims make out a case against the police (while 69% do so when the victim is a police officer). In average, only 3-6 percent of ...
Despite historic widespread protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder, last year saw the most deaths at the hands of police since at least 2015. According to the Washington Post, which only ...
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops. Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None ...
University of Texas at El Paso police responded to reports of a naked man who ran after a female's car. When police arrived, "the naked man was combative and they had to use a taser to subdue him and take him into custody". The man became "unconscious and unresponsive", and was later pronounced dead. [1] 2020-06-21: George Zapantis (29) White
The report wades directly into the racial debates over policing, noting that while coverage of police brutality cases has understandably "focused on race," that lens can also obscure how ...