The Rise Of Police Brutality In The United States

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According to the textbook, in the United States there has been less force cases than any other countries. In the United States the level of police violence has rose in the past 15 years because most people think the police are not going to react to them doing unnecessary things. This has always been a problem in the Unites States but now it has got to the point where it has got out of hand
On the other side of the world there is a lot of police brutality. On the other hand on that side of the world the police does not even help the citizens because all of the violence that is going on has them fearing for there lives. I think that the level of police force is not the same force used in other countries. The police in our country is bad but

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