The battering and bruising of Black residents at the hands of Baltimore police are documented in stark numbers in a report issued yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland.
Based on the first-ever analysis of data required under the city’s consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, the report found that 22,884 “use of force” incidents took place between officers and citizens from 2015 through 2019.
That’s an average of 12 violent encounters every day between the police and the policed.
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