Kekejaman polis

Dua orang polis menyerang seorang awam semasa rusuhan yang berlangsung di Harlem, New York pada tahun 1964. [Gambar ditangkap seorang jurugambar bersama akhbar New York World Telegraph & Sun]

Keganasan polis merupakan perbuatan salah laku polis yang melibatkan penggunaan kekerasan yang tidak patut dan melampau oleh anggotanya. Kekerasan sebegini dapat dilihat di banyak negara, termasuklah negara di mana pemerintahnya mengharamkan tingkah laku ini dalam undang-undang.

Untuk bacaan lanjut

• della Porta, D., A. Peterson and H. Reiter, eds. (2006). The Policing of Transnational Protest. Aldershot, Ashgate.
• della Porta, D. and H. Reiter (1998). Policing Protest: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
• Donner, F. J. 1990. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America. Berkeley, University of California Press.
• Earl, Jennifer S. and Sarah A. Soule. 2006. "Seeing Blue: A Police-Centered Explanation of Protest Policing." Mobilization 11(2): 145–164.
• Hessbruegge, Jan Arno, Human Rights and Personal Self-Defense in International Law, Oxford University Press (2017) [1]
• McPhail, Clark, David Schweingruber, and John D. McCarthy (1998). "Protest Policing in the United States, 1960–1995." pp. 49–69 in Policing Protest: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies, edited by D. della Porta and H. Reiter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Oliver, P. (2008). "Repression and Crime Control: Why Social Movements Scholars Should Pay Attention to Mass Incarceration Rates as a Form of Repression" Mobilization 13(1): 1–24.
• Ross, J.I. (2000). Making News of Police Violence: A Comparative Study of Toronto and New York City, Westport, CT: Praeger.
• Zwerman G, Steinhoff P. (2005). "When activists ask for trouble: state-dissident interactions and the new left cycle of resistance in the United States and Japan." In Repression and Mobilization, ed. C. Davenport, H. Johnston, C. Mueller, pp. 85–107. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Pautan luar

• Human Rights and Personal Self-Defense
• Police Brutality Statistics
• Worldwide Police Brutalities archive
• Names of Victims of Police Brutality In Canada
• Copwatch Project – includes the Copwatch Database: a permanent, searchable repository of complaints filed against police officers.
• [2] – information, statistics, and readings about state repression
• Cop Spotting – First-hand encounters with police abuse recorded on video.
• Policing the Police: Civilian Video Monitoring of Police Activity
• Posters about police brutality in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics