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From 2002 - 2004, over "10,000 complaints of police abuse were filed with Chicago police....but only 19 resulted in meaningful disciplinary action, a new study asserts."
According to Gerald Frazier, president of Citizens Alert, it reflects "not only the appearance of influence and cover-up," but clear evidence that city residents are being abused, not protected, despite the department's official motto being "We Serve and Protect."
Police notoriously attack nonviolent global justice protests against the IMF, World Bank, G-8, G-20, and WTO. Others demonstrating peacefully at national political conventions also harsh police crackdowns and mass arrests.
In 2005, the New York ACLU's "Rights and Wrongs at the RNC," reported on New York police attacking peaceful protesters at the Republican National Convention.
Free expression and assembly rights were denied. Over 1,800 arrests were made, including observers, members of the media and bystanders, the most ever at a national political convention.
Mistreatment resulted, including detentions in unsafe conditions, denial of medical care, painful handcuffing for long periods, and other lawless abuses.
At issue is protecting wealth and privilege from populist change. Social justice activism is suppressed. Those with power want to keep it. Nothing's yielded unless forced.
Wall Street tops the pecking order. Money power in private hands to make more of it lets them occupy and control Washington.
What they want, they get. Ordinary people lose out. Rage against the system demands change. Getting it requires focusing on issue one - returning money power to public hands as the Constitution's Article 1, Section 8 mandates.
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