That really depends on what you mean by "police brutality". A lot of behavior that people call "police brutality" isn't....which is why it doesn't get prosecuted.
That's certainly possible...though I don't recall any stats on it.
How many convicted cases of police brutality were there last year? Or the year before? Or before that?
I was trying to find a study on this, but there is not a lot out there. I did find one that was done in Virginia a while back that studied use if force and how many times use of force was found to be excessive. The amount that was found to be excessive was 5% or less.
I think we'd all agree that we like it to be zero or at least close to that. So at least by that study it showed that it was a very small minority of cases that we're excessive. When dealing with human beings in high stress, high adrenaline, volatile, violent circumstances it seems to me that 5% is pretty small in use of force circumstances.
People need to keep in mind that this is NOT 5% of police contacts. It's 5% of use of force situations were police have to use force to arrest someone, prevent an attack or escape etc.
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