Tag: police force
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Black people drastically overrepresented in Aurora police’s use of force
The Aurora Police Department has used force against Black people in more cases than white and Hispanic people for three years in a row, according to data released Thursday. Black people accounted for over 43% of use-of-force incidents by APD in 2017. That percentage increased to over 49% in 2018 and 2019. Only around 16%…