This was dated May 2009. You even have the mainstream corporate media that talks about this stuff.
The Rise of Police Brutality
Since the attack on September 11, 2001 there has been an increase in police brutality across the United States. (See related article at
USAToday.com.) Police departments are becoming increasingly militarized. Combat fatigued veterans, hardened by the realities of war, are returning from abroad and joining the ranks of the police. As police departments become increasingly corrupt, it becomes more difficult for them to recruit and retain decent people to wear their uniforms.
Homeland Security and Federal law enforcement agencies have been working closely with local police departments, as mentioned in this
article from Canadian Free Press and elsewhere. This collusion has led to untold violations of human rights across the nation and the numbers are increasing. The victims are often silenced by threats, both direct and implied, particularly when they have no evidence of the terrible crimes committed against them, as is most often the case.
Those who live through police brutality and live to tell the tale are survivors. The rest become statistics and the subject of an overwhelming number of deadly police brutality stories across the internet. The web has become a forum for people who have no other means to communicate what has happened to them or those they love at the hands of brutal police.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that police brutality cases are not just "isolated incidents" involving "a few bad apples." As Frank Serpico tried to tell everyone, (Please, see CNN article, of September 3, 1997,
Serpico Resurrects His Decades-old Criticism of NYPD.") organizations are corrupt from the top down. And, we see it again and again with remarkable cover ups of heinous crimes perpetrated by police across the country in which the perpetrators are promoted and the heads of departments go to great lengths to conceal officers crimes. These uniformed robbers, rapists, murderers and human traffickers flourish in their illegal activities while hiding behind their badges.
Read the rest here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1776198/the_rise_of_police_brutality.html
It's an ok article, but doesn't touch on some of the main aspects of why this is. The USATODAY article linked in the first paragraph has some raw data from 2007, for example:
National news sources such as USA Today have been reporting on a new study issued by the United States Justice Department of Justice that claims that police brutality incidents have been on the rise since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Compared to the previous seven-year period, the period from 2001 to 2007 exhibited a rise of 25% of police brutality incidents, with a rise in convictions of police officers for use of excessive force of 53% (the report was obviously intended to tout its own successes in prosecution).