Columbus PD use A LOT of force against Black residents

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Source--https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2021/11/11/columbus-police-use-force-most-against-black-residents-study-finds/6373146001/


Snip--"A new study reports that Black residents were involved in more than half of use-of-force incidents by Columbus police in a three-year period despite representing less than a third of the city’s population.

Accountable Now, which collects data on police use-of-force cases from law enforcement agencies around the United States, analyzed 1,128 incidents between 2017 and 2019 in Columbus and found that police most often used force against Black people.

Black people comprise 29% of Columbus' population of nearly 900,000, but were the subject of police use-of-force in 52% of cases studied, according to Accountable Now's findings. Additionally, the analysis found that police used force against white people in 31.3% of those incidents reported in the three-year period.

snip--{Bryant is the Chief of Police who was hired in June 2021. She is from outside the CPD, she had a 20+yr career with Detroit PD}

"When Bryant stepped into the police chief role in late June, she took over a division with a history of racial bias highlighted in a report released by the Matrix Consulting Group in 2019, and whose officers were behind several recent high-profile killings of Black residents — including 47-year-old Andre Hill and 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant —that had drawn national attention and days of protests. "

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