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	Oppression Summary
		Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the arbitrary and cruel exercise of power in a society or social group.
		A hierarchy of oppression is a ranking (hierarchy) of relative
		When oppression is systematized through coercion, threats of violence, or violence by government agencies or non-government paramilitiaries with a political motive, it is often called Political repression.
	www.bookrags.com /Oppression (967 words)

	Learn more about Police in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police are normally considered an emergency service and may provide a public safety function at large gatherings, as well as in emergencies, disasters, and search and rescue situations.
		Police are also responsible for reporting minor offenses by issuing citations which typically may result in the imposition of fines, particularly for violations of traffic law.
		Police sometimes involve themselves in the maintenance of public order, even where no legal transgressions have occurred -- for example, in some Australian jurisdictions, people who are drunk and causing a public nuisance may be removed to a "drying-out centre" until they recover from the effects of the alcohol.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/police.html (1256 words)

	Police brutality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, verbal attacks, and threats by police officers and other law enforcement officers.
		Police are employed by society to maintain order, but by dealing largely with disorderly elements of the society, some people working in law enforcement may gradually develop an attitude or sense of authority over society, particularly under traditional reaction-based policing models.
		Police use of force is kept in check in many jurisdictions by the issuance of a use of force continuum.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/police_oppression (1425 words)

	Police Oppression by Omission
		We are constantly told by Women's Aid, government ministers, the press, the BBC and countless others, including the police, that 81% (they used to say 95%) of domestic violence is carried out by men on women.
		After all, if he were to snap under pressure from his abuser and kill her, the press, the government and the BBC would not be reporting he suffered from "Battered Mans Syndrome" and ought to be released from custody forthwith.
		Hi was interested to see your web site, but the server is changing, i had an experience of this, and it wasnt pleasant, but i think the attitude of the police annoyed me nearly as much as she did.
	www.nzmera.orcon.net.nz /poliomit.html (0 words)

	Elyse Rau
		The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is one of the key actors at the root of this conflict.
		Police conduct, particularly in incidents involving minorities, has become a major issue this year for city officials, who have fielded complaints of police brutality and the department's failure to effectively investigate citizens' claims.
		March 10 Police shoot and kill Abu Kassim Jeilani, a Somali man suspected to be suffering from mental illness and wielding a machete and crowbar.
	www.clarityfacilitation.com /police/background.htm (9171 words)

	Police oppression (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police oppression is oppressive, arbitrary, cruel, or unfavorable acts by the law enforcement officers, sometimes forcing citizens to break the law.
		It may be caused by excessive police funding, unreasonably low speed limits, unreasonable tollbooths, unreasonably high toll booth charges, highly controversial or pointless laws, or oppressive rulers or regimes.
		Anotable instance was in Seattle, Washington, at the 1999 WTO protest when police violentlyattacked scores of unarmed nonviolent protesters, suspended freedom of assembly, and then arrested several hundred and held themfor days.
	www.therfcc.org /police-oppression-53597.html (140 words)

	Texas Police and Texas Police Department News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police say a jailer reported he saw police officer Jonathan Strange push a handcuffed suspect against the wall and kick him in the chest.
		The Friendswood police internal affairs investigation was separate from an investigation by the Houston Police Department regarding the alleged shoplifting at the Wal-Mart at 150 El Dorado on May 20.
		According to Houston police records, a clerk at the Wal-Mart saw Pree, who was in uniform, take two rings off the jewelry counter, walk to a corner and take the tags off the $8.88 rings and then put the rings in her pocket.
	flyservers.com /members5/policecrime.com/misconduct/Texas2_police.html (7538 words)

	Afghanistan - The Wire - April2003 - Amnesty International
		In Afghanistan not only are the police unable to guarantee the protection of human rights, but some members of the police are involved in committing human rights violations.
		Without assistance to overcome the current crippling difficulties the police force will be unable to serve the community in a way that protects human rights, despite the good intentions of some police officers around the country.
		The task of rebuilding the police force in Afghanistan is challenging but needs urgent attention as it is vital to the establishment of a lasting peace in the country.
	web.amnesty.org /web/wire.nsf/April2003/Afghanistan (768 words)

	Police oppression - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police oppression is oppressive or unfavorable acts by the law enforcement officers, sometimes forcing citizens to break the law.
		It may be caused by excessive police funding, unreasonably low speed limits, unreasonable toll booths, unreasonably high toll booth charges, highly controversial or pointless laws, or oppressive rulers or regimes.
		Police oppression can also be violent or brutality and pose a menance to society.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Police_oppression (119 words)

	Police Oppression by Omission
		We are constantly told by Women's Aid, government ministers, the press, the BBC and countless others, including the police, that 81% (they used to say 95%) of domestic violence is carried out by men on women.
		After all, if he were to snap under pressure from his abuser and kill her, the press, the government and the BBC would not be reporting he suffered from "Battered Mans Syndrome" and ought to be released from custody forthwith.
		Hi was interested to see your web site, but the server is changing, i had an experience of this, and it wasnt pleasant, but i think the attitude of the police annoyed me nearly as much as she did.
	members.tripod.com /peterzohrab/poliomit.html (767 words)

	Afghanistan: Police reconstruction essential for the protection of human rights. - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The reconstruction of a professional police force, as an important enforcement mechanism for the rule of law across the country, needs urgent attention and must be made a priority by the Afghan authorities with the firm support of the international community.
		Police used water hoses in an attempt to disperse the protestors, which was met with further stone throwing by the students.
		In Amnesty International’s many meetings with police commanders around the country there was no discussion about differentiation or proportionality of force; commanders are unaware of international standards regarding the use of force and firearms, and act according to their own judgement, in the absence of any procedures or guidance from the centre.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa110032003 (18856 words)

	americas.org - Haitian Police Distribute Machetes in Bel Air (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In what some are describing as a new tactic employed by Haiti's notorious national police to control the slums of Port-au-Prince, last week officers were seen distributing machetes to a group of residents in the impoverished neighborhood of Bel Air--setting them loose on their neighbors.
		Human rights groups have long accused the Haitian police of terrorizing poor neighborhoods believed to be power bases for exiled President Aristide ever since the February 2004 coup, and in the months leading up to the elections planned for this fall, activists say police oppression has increased.
		Victims were shot at by police and hacked to death by a "lynch mob" armed by police.
	www.americas.org /item_21392 (562 words)

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		Police claimed that he was suffering from dysentery, but Manjit Singh reportedly told doctors he had been tortured in police custody.
		The police issued a statement that she had escaped from police custody and committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.
		According to the Tamil Nadu police, Sekar, a law student aged 25, and Kandan, a 28-year-old agricultural labourer who was married with one young child, were both killed as a result of police firing to disperse rioters in Sorapur village on 2 September 1989.
	www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=DA575FC37FF84FDD802569A600601F31 (16626 words)

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		Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the cruel exercise of power in a society or social group.
		A hierarchy of oppression is a ranking (hierarchy) of relative oppressions according to arbitrariness and cruelty, or according to the perceived negative effects on oppressed communities.
		Several movements have arisen that specifically aim to oppose, analyse and counter oppression in general; examples include Liberation Theology in the Catholic world, and Re-evaluation Counselling in the psychotherapuetic arena.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Oppression (593 words)

	Pittsburgh Rocks NYC Feb 15th : Pittsburgh Indymedia
		Soon the police changed tactics and brought in forces with helmets and the like to make sure we stood on the sidewalk that we were just informed we couldn't stand on.
		Eventually the group was steered by police to streets with barriers set up to break apart the massive group of demonstrators into smaller sections and to stop the progress of the march.
		The police along the curb all began to shove us back which wasn't terribly effective at first as there were hundreds of people behind us on the sidewalk.
	pittsburgh.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1328&comments=yes (664 words)

	The Torch: Biker Violence or Police Oppression?
		The police and the police only decide when a person can be denied admittance to a property.
		If the police estimate that you are a 'biker', you can be refused admittance to your private property at a few hours' notice, and you may also be deprived of your right to assemble with others who are defined as 'bikers'.
		Many bikers maintain that the police successfully have sought to provoke the war - a rude statement in a little harmonious country like Denmark which is fond of depicting itself as one of the world's distinguished exemplary countries.
	www.faklen.dk /en/the_torch/bikers.shtml (994 words)

	The War for Living Space (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The means by which this resettlement is implemented are varied and include arson, diminished "fire protection," state sponsored drug-running, police terror, bank redlining, phony "vacate" and demolition orders, perpetual "rent" increases and "legal" evictions.
		Cut-backs of essential services in the targeted neighborhoods is the general background to a veritable war of attrition against the poor, who are simultaneously stigmatized by the corporate white media and government "think tanks" as "criminals," the "underclass," or worse.
		The militarization of the struggles surrounding housing, land, "speculation," and social control is the militarization of the entire question of "housing," which implies an increasingly overt police r3epression.
	interactivist.net /housing/war_3.html (689 words)

	Drug laws go bust (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Police seized a number of glass pipes from the Café, as well as a large wooden sculpture and hemp necklaces and pendants from a display case.
		Police told him he would not be released unless he agreed to the conditions of bail, which specified that he not visit the block where his former businesses are located.
		Police refused to allow her parents, who were also being held, to call the baby's grandparents — or even social services — to remove the infant from jail.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/100.html (4939 words)

	Policing Dissent in Canada - By Brian Burch
		Most frightening, perhaps, is the general acceptance of police violence, including the use of dogs and projectile weapons, against those who oppose war, poverty, homelessness, and forms of state-sanctioned violence and suffering.
		Since September 11, police forces and their political supporters have worked hard to ensure that increasingly oppressive police tactics are not only permitted but encouraged.
		The state increases its oppression and police forces increase their crackdowns when change is in the air.
	webhome.idirect.com /~occpehr/articles/v18_1_policing_dissent.htm (1416 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		Last year, while undercover agents from the Austin police department were infiltrating anti-war activist workshops, officers of the same department continued the customary practice of harassment and brutality against communities of color on Austin's east side.
		While these weekly protests were taking place a number of Austin anti-war activists involved in opens-records requests, including the Austin People's Legal Collective and the Texas ACLU, received photocopies of internal APD memos documenting their undercover surveillance of anti-war activist workshops during the spring of 2003.
		Together this coalition against police oppression worked out a plan of action for March 20th, in which activists from around the city would rally in the city, and then conduct a tour--from the site of Sophia King’s killing, through cultural gentrification zones, and finally to the Austin Police Department headquarters.
	www.indymedia.org /en/2004/03/110514.shtml (0 words)

	publish.nyc.indymedia.org \| My experience and suggestions for Critical Mass
		Prior to this the police had been relying on the loss of a bicycle to several months of “arrest evidence” as a punishment for riding in critical mass.
		The police will continue to interfere with the ride for the time being, but we can make sure the interference happens in front of tourists by riding around midtown and other densely populated areas.
		Police also have hard time dealing with events that are not scripted.
	nyc.indymedia.org /en/2005/08/56201.html (1427 words)

	Police attack antiwar march
		POLICE ATTACKED an antiwar demonstration of more than 200 students and peace activists in Hartford, Conn., on October 26.
		Although the march was peaceful, police claim that a few protesters strayed from the sidewalk.
		"The police oppression here in Hartford is a sign of the hypocrisy of the U.S. leaders calling the United States the land of the free," Hurter said.
	www.socialistworker.org /2001/382/382_02_DemoAttacked.shtml (437 words)

	Uhuru On The Move :: St. Petersburg, FL :: Another rebellion rocks St. Petersburg! People's message - "We have a ...
		Police then lined up at least ten across and began spraying potentially lethal doses of pepper-spray against a crowd that included children, pregnant women and the elderly.
		There is a long pattern and history of police murdering African people all across the U.S. There is not a recent pattern however, of a righteously militant response to such murders — except in St. Petersburg, Florida, the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement and the growing resistance to U.S. imperialism and colonialism within U.S. borders.
		On the military front, police have equipped themselves with Colt AR-15’s, the semi-automatic variety of the weapon being used in Iraq.“[U.S.] cities are not combat zones, but when you arm the police with assault rifles, you run the risk of turning them into combat zones.
	www.inpdum.org /uhuru_on_the_move/stp/rebellion.shtml (1177 words)

	The Experiment » Blog Archive » ‘’Copwatch'’ Activists Patrol Communities to Thwart ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the three began filming the police, and continued to do so after being told to move, they knew their presence was unwelcome.
		By definition, he explained, “we are not assuming to take any of [the police commissioner’’s] power away from him.” Local police unions, for their part, effectively blocked the local government from granting the CCRB full independent prosecutorial power in 2001, with a lawsuit to shield disciplinary proceedings from the public.
		The responses of police to this brand of public scrutiny — both positive and negative, according to the observations of activists — indicate that civilians are not the only ones taking notice of the movement toward community-based surveillance.
	www.theexperiment.org /?p=78 (1897 words)

	Angelic Upstarts - Gary Bushell
		The band were also soon to recruit the services of Keith Bell, a self-confessed former gangster and one-time North Eastern Countries light-middleweight boxing champ, who as manager, bouncer and bodyguard was able to maintain order at early gigs on the basis of his reputation alone.
		Police interest stemmed from the Upstarts’ championing of the cause of Birtley amateur boxer Liddle Towers who died from injuries received after a night in the police cells.
		The Upstarts called it murder, and ‘The Murder of Liddle Towers’ (b/w ‘Police Oppression’) was their debut single on their own Dead Records.
	www.punk77.co.uk /groups/angelicupstartsgarybushell.htm (824 words)

	The City \| TIME
		Sometimes it is a case of ambushes on police by small groups of fl tenement tireurs.
		Police and FBI agents have also counterattacked by raiding militants' headquarters, ostensibly to look for weapons and sometimes to harass the members.
		Sacramento police last week stormed Panther offices during a disturbance in which more than 100 shots were fired, wounding 12 cops and at least three other persons.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,900913-1,00.html (671 words)

	Santa Cruz Indymedia: Never Again! One Tent U Participant’s Experience with Police Oppression
		Around 15 police vans drove up the parking lot and with that first warning on the loud speaker I knew things would never be the same.
		I suppose the police could have just beat them, it certainly would have been more effective - but when a person resists arrests, physical force is required, and the police chose a method that causes pain, but not generally the broken bones of a good whack with a nightstick.
		A significant part of that will be the willingness of the community to challenge oppressive police power where it next raises its head and to resist the immobilizing chill of police violence.
	santacruz.indymedia.org /newswire/display/18038/index.php (1660 words)

	portland imc - features archive - page 4
		Police officers told demonstrators that they could not sit or lie on the public sidewalk (thanks to the new sit/lie ordinance).
		The suit concerns violent actions taken by the police against non violent protesters during the August 22, 2002 demonstration against the fund raising visit of pResident Bush.
		The first complaint is in regards to the conscious decision by the police to ignore an established line of communication to the protest coordinators.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/topic/policestate/feature/archive4.shtml (3951 words)

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