... been vulnerable to abusive policing practices. In terms of police brutality as a form of misconduct, Cruz (1995: 34) refers to this issue as a critical problem in which "the social science literature pays little attention." This form of aggressive police behavior is defined as an extra-legal mechanism of control and subordination that includes any offense involving torture, excessive physical force, verbal ... the regional patterns of police misconduct. Before thematic maps could be developed, it was necessary to create tables containing information combined by state, and categorizing t...

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