Dissimuler la violence policière: de Rodney King à Michael Brown

Topo pertinent sur l'absence de données concernant la violence policière. Les différents services de police préfèrent maintenir la confidentialité.

 "The story of the various failed national efforts to compile and release such data—or to obtain any reliable numbers on violence by police officers at all—is just another dimension of an issue that Monday’s grand-jury decision threw into relief: a sense that police departments across the country are simply not held accountable enough. Whatever the particular circumstances that led a grand jury to decline to indict Darren Wilson, police officers are typically given the benefits of all doubts in the use of force and are rarely prosecuted, criminologists and other experts say. And because a substantial portion of these alleged police abuses of law and justice appear to be directed against blacks and other minorities in certain communities—not the white-dominated power structure in their own communities—it rarely becomes a notable issue, at least until a Michael Brown-type killing provokes enough violence and outrage in the streets for the TV cameras to pay attention." http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/the-great-police-violence-cover-up-113190.html?hp=t2_r#.VHaAoDGG81I