The Worst Police Misconduct Videos of 2010

[MrScorpio]

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The polling is closed and the results of our reader’s votes have been tabulated in our Worst Police Misconduct Videos of 2010 Reader’s Poll.

This is the second year that we’ve run this poll here at this site and the third year that it has run overall. Each year we do this we don’t post every single videotaped instance of police misconduct out there because, well, many people don’t have the bandwidth to load that many videos on a single page and it’s very difficult to keep track of them all. In fact, this year, at least two potential candidate videos came out shortly before our polling ended.

While it’s important to remember that these are not all of the police misconduct related videos that were released in 2010, videos are rarely released in association with an incident of police misconduct. In fact, out of the over 5,000 reports we tracked, only a little over 200 of those reports had known video associated with the incident and, of those 200, only a little over 50 of those videos were released to the public. So it’s important to understand that, while the videos are horrific, they are not necessarily representative of the worst cases of police misconduct overall.

I know it’s a lot of me to ask our readers to view all of these videos and pick which one seems worst to them when all of them seem wrong in their own right. But I do think that it helps drive home that police misconduct happens anywhere, can happen to anyone, and it makes it far easier for people to put themselves in the shoes of a victim. This poll helps me understand public perspectives of police misconduct and helps bring more attention to the issue. It would be worse, I think, if they were just ignored or forgotten after they were originally released.

For those who are interested, the candidates that were voted on for 2010 are available for public review here. The Worst Videos of 2009 are here while the candidates used for that poll are available for review here.

With that said, here are the 5 worst police misconduct videos of 2010 as voted on by our readers: http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=3572

[Number23]

1. Related story

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Edit: I'm not watching the vids because my stomach can't take it, but how many of those involved black or brown people??

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. kick

[shanti]

3. painful to watch

but could happen to anyone now :( thanks for the info, mrscorpio,

[Generic Other]

4. so many ugly examples

The violence is endemic.