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Originally Posted by GoodLife
If we measure police brutality in terms of where police kill the largest number of unarmed individuals, without the officers being held accountable, the top five cities are:
New York (New York)
Phoenix (Arizona)
Los Angeles (California)
Jacksonville (Florida)
Chicago (Illinois)
5 Worst U.S. Cities for Police Brutality | Excessive Force Natl Epidemic
How to fix this? Here's our former President writing in Medium
Moreover, it’s important for us to understand which levels of government have the biggest impact on our criminal justice system and police practices. When we think about politics, a lot of us focus only on the presidency and the federal government. And yes, we should be fighting to make sure that we have a president, a Congress, a U.S. Justice Department, and a federal judiciary that actually recognize the ongoing, corrosive role that racism plays in our society and want to do something about it. But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels.
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Interesting article. It says the two largest offenders are CA and FL. Normally, those two states don't go together in much of anything. I would agree the issues are more local and I do believe there are systemic problems (racism, bad training, bad officers) that will take some real change to root out. I also believe the vast majority of police are good but unfortunately it is a profession where a few bad apples can devastate relationships with communities.