Discipline is rare for violent police officers

+ Antibody injections, COVID-19 in Indian country US Edition - Today's top story: Police officers accused of brutal violence often have a history of complaints by citizens [View in browser]( US Edition | 1 June 2020 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair Protesters across the country are raging against a system they say fails to hold violent and abusive police accountable for their actions, especially when that behavior victimizes African Americans. Criminology scholar Jill McCorkel says that anger reflects a violent reality: Decades of research on police shootings reveal that officers with a history of shooting civilians are [much more likely to do so in the future compared to other officers](. A similar pattern holds for misconduct complaints. And the officers involved in both the deaths of African Americans George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville share a history of complaints by citizens of brutality or misconduct. 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