@FBM,
You dont have to consider my opinion. I'm stating facts, not comedy routintes with formerly appointed political officials.
The studies I cite are accurate. ICPA, BJS, NIJ,etc. YOU just cant accept them. YOU find unreasonable fault with them because they dont suport your position. This is because your position is indefensible. It is based on histrionics and panders to the lowest common denominator. YOU have not offfered any credible statistics, but merely poo-pooed studies done by reputable orgaizations and government agencies.
You cry for a national data base. Who will pay for it?
You've said that you dont like the studies because they are voluntary and only show what the departmetn wants to show.
Here are surveys of the PUBLIC...now whats your excuse??
BJS
Use of Force
An essential element in law enforcement is the potential for suspect resistance and police use of or threatened use of force. In the Police Public Contact Survey (PPCS), persons who had contact with police during the previous 12 months, whether as a driver in a traffic stop or for some other reason, were asked if the police officer(s) used or threatened to use force against them during the contact. Survey respondents who reported more than one contact during the year were asked about the use or threat of force by police during their most recent contact.
Summary findings
Among persons who had contact with police in 2008, an estimated 1.4% had force used or threatened against them during their most recent contact, which was not statistically different from the percentages in 2002 (1.5%) and 2005 (1.6%).
Males were more likely than females to have force used or threatened against them during their most recent contact with police during 2008, and blacks were more likely than whites or Hispanics to experience use or threat of force.
Of persons who had force used or threatened against them by police in 2008, an estimated 74% felt those actions were excessive.
Of those individuals who had force used or threatened against them in 2008, about half were pushed or grabbed by police. About 19% of persons who experienced the use or threat of force by the police reported being injured during the incident.
Among persons experiencing police use or threat of force in 2008, an estimated
22% reported that they argued with, cursed at, insulted, or verbally threatened the police.
About 12% of those involved in a force incident reported disobeying or interfering with the police.
Among individuals who had force used or threatened against them in 2008, an estimated 40% were arrested during the incident.
An estimated 84% of individuals who experienced force or the threat of force felt that the police acted improperly. Of those who experienced the use or threat of force in 2008 and felt the police acted improperly,
14% filed a complaint against the police.
Selected findings from the Police-Public Contact Survey
In 1996 the Bureau of Justice Statistics
conducted a pilot test of the Police-Public
Contact Survey. Although not intended as
a source of detailed or precise statistics on
police use of force, the pilot survey did provide
preliminary estimates of the prevalence
of the public’s contact with police,
including contacts during which police
used force. Among the survey’s findings
are the following:
• An estimated 44.6 million persons (one in
five U.S. residents age 12 or older) had
face-to-face contacts with police officers
during the prior 12 months. Men, whites,
and people in their twenties were the
most likely to have those contacts.
• An estimated 33 percent of residents who
had contact with police had either asked
for assistance from officers or provided it
to them. About 32 percent of those who
had contact with police had reported a
crime, either as a victim or witness.
• For nearly half of those with contacts, the
encounters were initiated by the public.
For just under one-third of persons with
contacts, police initiated them.
• Age is an important factor in both the
frequency and type of police contacts
experienced. Young people were the
least likely to initiate contact with police
(their contacts most often were police
initiated), while persons age 60 or older
were the most likely to initiate contacts
with officers.
• About 1 percent of people reporting contacts
with police indicated that officers
used force or threatened force. In the majority
of those instances, respondents said
that their own actions, such as threatening
police or resisting arrest, may have provoked
officers.
The fact of the matter is in most reported cases when the offender was told he was under arrest and the officer placed a hand on the offenders wrist the offender tightened his arm and resisted. In most jurisdictions accross the U.S., this allows the officer to escalate the use of force continuum, i.e., open hand restraint, OC, taser, baton. To decrease the chances of officer injury several officers will usually assist to over power the offender.
DONT WANT TO GET HURT? STOP RESISTING.
about that.