Tufts University: Two-Thirds of African Americans Know Someone Mistreated by Police, and 22% Report Mistreatment in Past Year
June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts, June 19 -- Tufts University issued the following news release:
Sixty-eight percent of African Americans say they know someone who has been unfairly stopped, searched, questioned, physically threatened or abused by the police, and 43 percent say they personally have had this experience--with 22 percent saying the mistreatment occurred within the past year alone, according to survey results from Tufts University's Research Group on Equity in Health, Wealth a . . .
Sixty-eight percent of African Americans say they know someone who has been unfairly stopped, searched, questioned, physically threatened or abused by the police, and 43 percent say they personally have had this experience--with 22 percent saying the mistreatment occurred within the past year alone, according to survey results from Tufts University's Research Group on Equity in Health, Wealth a . . .