Sept. 7, 2014
Poll: 70 Percent of Blacks Think Police Use Excessive Force
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from TheNorthStarNews.com
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - After the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson, an overwhelming number of African-Americans give low marks to police departments for not holding officers accountable for misconduct, using the appropriate amount of force and treating racial and ethnic groups equally, according to a poll by Pew Research Center and USA Today.
Some 70 percent of Blacks say police departments do a poor job of holding officers accountable for misconduct and an equal percentage say police departments do a poor job of treating racial and ethnic groups equally.
Some 57 percent of Blacks think police departments do a poor job of using the right amount of force.