WHY SHOULD THE POLICE WANT TO BEAT PEOPLE UP?
01 January 1991
WHY SHOULD THE POLICE WANT TO BEAT PEOPLE UP?
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 008505
M Walker
New Statesman, 11 Apr 1986 111(2872) pp10-12
Examines this issue in the light of cases involving Steven Shaw
and Sarah Hollis who were concerned in police complaints inquiries
and subsequently suffered intimidation and assault. Concludes
that increasing violence in the police force is the result of
a private war by some officers against those whom they see as the
criminal community, but that, so far, such incidents have been
hushed up or ignored because of a widespread failure to believe
that British policemen could be capable of such actions.
United Kingdom, crime, Brittan, Manchester
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