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BMJ-British Medical Journal
Excessive police violence evident in emergency care cases, say US doctors
January 10th, 2009
Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal. The findings are based on 315 responses to a representative survey of 393 academic emergency care doctors across the USA. There are around 800,000 police (law enforcement) officers in the USA, and figures for 2002 show that just short of the 45 million people who had a face to face encounter with one, did so at the behest of the officer. Almost all (99.8%) of respondents believed that the police use excessive force to arrest and detain suspects. ...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-10)
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