- Target:
- Urban Outreach
- Region:
- GLOBAL
The following statement is from the journalistsresource.org article titled Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict. See more at: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/police-reasonable-force-brutality-race-research-review-statistics#sthash.4f09zsAI.dpuf :
"Allegations of the use of excessive force by U.S. police departments continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots brought the issue to mass public attention and prompted law enforcement reforms.
On Staten Island, N.Y., the July 2014 death of Eric Garner because of the apparent use of a “chokehold” by an officer sparked outrage. A month later in Ferguson, Mo., the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson ignited protests, and a grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson triggered further unrest. In November, Tamir Rice was shot by police in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 12 years old and playing with a toy pistol. And on April 4, 2015, Walter L. Scott was shot by a police officer after a routine traffic stop in North Charleston, S.C. Those who died were all black, while the officers were white. The policeman in the South Carolina case, Michael T. Slager, was charged with murder based on a cellphone video, but there were no indictments in the other cases.
These follow other recent incidents and controversies, including an April 2014 finding by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), following a two-year investigation, that the Albuquerque, N.M., police department “engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment,” and a similar DOJ finding in December 2014 with regard to the Cleveland police department. In March 2015, the DOJ also issued a report detailing a pattern of “clear racial disparities” and “discriminatory intent” on the part of the Ferguson, Mo., police department."
- See more at: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/police-reasonable-force-brutality-race-research-review-statistics#sthash.4f09zsAI.dpuf
The sole purpose of this petition is to ensure that police departments throughout the USA and the US government would abide by human rights that are actually in place and enforce penalties, while giving harsher punishments for any public servant who violates civil liberties of the people.
The burden of proof should only be a civil standard for any law enforcement agency that uses unnecessary and /or excessive force to any civilian regardless of race, origin, ethnicity, or religion, whether recently incarcerated or law abiding citizen.
Fair and reasonable force must always be applied regardless of fear of present danger or life. Prosecutors who breach Rule 8.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct shall be subject to mandatory and hefty fines which can be proved at a standard of proof that is consistent with a civil suit.
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