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More about Police, Us World, Us, Police Brutality, and Ferguson
from MashableKari Paul
As protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri, police violence is still a big part of the national conversation — and a spate of videos showing police brutality have gone viral in recent weeks.
Although incidents of police brutality are not new, the ubiquity of their documentation, both by mobile phone and surveillance cameras, has brought the issue to the fore.
The use of force by police isn't necessarily on the rise — the Department of Justice says there was no statistically significant increase from 2002 to 2008 — but the combination of proliferating cameras and viral videos makes it seem as though the recordings just keep coming. Read more...
More about Police, Us World, Us, Police Brutality, and Ferguson
from MashableKari Paul
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