Reuters reports, in the Emergency Medicine Journal, in a study of 315 emergency-room doctors, 99.8% believed law enforcement officers use excessive force to arrest and detain suspects. 97.8% had managed cases involving excessive police force, and 65.3% estimated they had treated at least 2 such cases per year.
Also, 96.5% knew of no official policy or guidelines on reporting such incidents, but most felt they should be reporting them.
Click here to read the whole article, because it’s fascinating.
Always watching!
-TimK
Update: There are interesting discussion threads on this article over at RateMyCop.com and at CopTalk.com. There seems to be a difference of opinion between the cops and the doctors. That kind of makes sense, because a cop’s job is unfortunately to seek out trouble, and a doc’s job is to sew together the pieces.
