US police officers often use deadly force with relative impunity due to double standards that exist in the country’s criminal justice system, a writer and researcher in Florida says.
“We are ending up with a double standard; one for the common citizen and one for police officers,” Walt Peretto told Press TV on Monday.
“This double standard has been part of American culture for quite a while now and it is getting more one-sided and it’s getting to the point where cops are bordering on impunity for violent criminal activities,” he added.
US government prosecutors have declined to bring charges against police officers facing allegations of civil rights violations in 96 percent of such cases during the past 10 years, according to a new report.
Federal prosecutors turned down 12,703 potential civil rights violations out of 13,233 total complaints between 1995 and 2015, according to an investigation by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper.
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