More 'Shocking' Info on Portland Police Use of Force

By JAMES PITKIN
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Portland police use Tasers on people with mental illness more than anyone else
five more nuggets
Fact 1
African-American subjects
greater rate than they get arrested
Whites
Latinos
Fact 2
Men get rougher treatment than women
struck, Tasered and pepper-sprayed
Fact 3
Seventy-five times that officers used force, they did not indicate any resistance by the subject.
did not
mark a box
Fact 4
No charges were filed in 29 percent of all use-of-force incidents.
Assault 4 (domestic violence)
Fact 5
Most times there was no injury to the subject when force was used
no injury
abrasions
breaking subjects' bones

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