{"id":283560,"date":"2016-12-09T12:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-needs-police-reforms-to-end-brutality-against-minorities-analyst\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:37:09","slug":"us-needs-police-reforms-to-end-brutality-against-minorities-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-needs-police-reforms-to-end-brutality-against-minorities-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"US needs police reforms to end brutality against minorities: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US policy makers and civil rights organizations must push for major\u00a0 reforms in law enforcement departments to eradicate police violence against minorities, a political and national-security analyst in Washington says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 24 percent of unarmed individuals who were killed by police last year were African American, although they make only about 14 percent of the US population, said Eric Ham, a former national security advisor and researcher at the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a very stark number when you look at the high rate of killings by law enforcement perpetrated on people of color, even though they\u2019re a minority of the population, but yet they rank so high with the killings in t his country,\u201d Ham told Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a number of situations where civil rights organizations are now beginning to mobilize and to begin to develop a strategy to take on much of what it seems as abuse by law enforcement officials in the country,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/09\/497110\/US-blacks-police-violence-Eric-Ham\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US policy makers and civil rights organizations must push for major\u00a0 reforms in law enforcement departments to eradicate police violence against minorities, a political and national-security analyst in Washington says. About 24 percent of unarmed individuals who were killed by police last year were African American, although they make only about 14 percent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}