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Police Brutality
By: Anonymous

"But they didn't have to beat me this bad. I don't know what I did to be beat
up." Rodney King, March 3, 1991. Police brutality has been a long lasting
problem in the United States since at least 1903 when police Captain Williams
of the New York Police Departmen coined the phrase, "There is more law at
the end of a policeman's nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court."
In the 1920's the Wichersham Commission had a number of instances of police
brutality. Many of these included the use of the "third degree" (beating to
obtain a confession). This is a very effective way to get a confession out of
somebody. However, beating the accused could easily elicit a confession from
a scared and innocent person. Also, this puts the......

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