Assertion: police | /r/CapableOf | use force
Facets:
value: against them
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: on a suspect
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in situations
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the arrest process
type: TEMPORAL
value: according to the community violence hypothesis
type: OTHER
value: according to the man
type: OTHER
value: far
type: TEMPORAL
value: with civilians
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The threat hypothesis implies that "police use force in direct response to a perceived threat from racial and/or economic groups viewed as threatening to the existing social order.
text: Police in the United States are also prohibited from holding criminal suspects for more than a reasonable amount of time (usually 24–48 hours) before arraignment, using torture, abuse or physical threats to extract confessions, using excessive force to effect an arrest, and searching suspects' bodies or their homes without a warrant obtained upon a showing of probable cause.
text: During a case study attempting to test the effects that body cameras had on police actions, researchers found evidence that suggested that police used less force with civilians when they had body cameras.
text: According to the man, the police used far too much force in the arrest process.
text: According to the community violence hypothesis, "police use force in direct response to levels of violence in the community.
text: It is a collection of 50 different state laws bound together by U.S. Supreme Court decisions that try to clarify when the police can use force.
text: As such, it is vitally important that we: 1) create a common, plain language understanding of when the police can use force and what happens when they do; 2) develop investigative and accountability processes that are as transparent and responsive to community expectations as possible, and; 3) take the steps necessary to scientifically understand this phenomenon and take every possible action to minimize it.
text: Of those 45 million, the study found, slightly more than half a million reported that the police had used force against them.
text: The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000.
text: Now a recent decision from the conservative-majority Supreme Court has doubled down on protections for police who use force even in situations where it was not called for.
text: Police use force on a suspect in one out of 30 arrests in New Jersey.