Questions tagged [police]

A publicly funded organization charged with keeping the law and peace within a certain geographic area.

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Is the number of complaints filed a good measure of how abusive a police officer or department is?

Derek Chauvin had 17 complaints on record when he killed George Floyd. I have seen many articles, including this NYT article, which use this statistic as evidence that the whole department is corrupt. I don't discount that possibility, but it…
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