- 15,990
- 5,971
source to the data that supports this?
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-17-Copmisconduct_N.htm
also go to policemisconduct.net. from their 2009 & 2010 data, they have shown that the misconduct rate rised from 09' to '10.
Unfortunately the cato institute hasn't conducted research on the matter since these years, and there's not a lot of new studies out.
But post 9/11 officers have become more & more aggressive.
also, there is a number of incidents that go unreported. I'd wager most incidents go unreported. I never filed a complaint for the assault I sustained at the hands of the NYPD detective, quite frankly I was scared.