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Honest question - how many people being restrained by the police claim they are being injured in some way as a way to avoid/delay arrest?


That is a difficult question to answer. I imagine there is always a balancing act. Especially if the police have some rule in place, it could create situations that criminals would attempt to take advantage of. However, I have always been of the mind that I'd rather a guilty person walk free than an innocent person not. And there are always consideration of how use of force can affect those who see it, with secondary effects creating, what I imagine, are the more troublesome effects.

I did find this

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=84

and this

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/176330.pdf

while attempting to research this, they are certainly interesting reads.




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