How often does it really happen? What types of complaints to citizens have?

From what we view in the media about police brutality some may feel that it happens often. In reality it is not as common as we think it is. It is difficult to find statistics’ on how often it actually happens. I found a website policeabuse.com and it is where victims of police misconduct can file reports in order have them investigated. On this website there is a link to the statistics of how many complaints there have been during certain quarters of the year. Here is gives a good idea how many complaints are being put in, in a period of time. All in all severe police brutality happens I’d say less than 1% of the time.

The type of brutalism that we often here of is if there is a shooting or if someone is tased illegally. Police brutality is not always just physical it can be verbal as well. There are a variety of things that citizens can file complaints about for example if an officer made an insulting or sexual remark to a citizen, conducting an illegal search, using racial slurs, hitting a citizen with a baton, falsely arresting a citizen, striking a citizen with fist or feet, and even misuse of a police dog. I am sure that citizens make all sorts of complaints other than these. All of these are types of police brutality against citizens. Citizens can file complaints on just about anything that they feel is necessary to get their point accross about the activity of a police officer.