Brutal tactics by some rightspol protests during the 1960s?

Brutal tactics by some police officers to suppress civil rights protests during the 1960s led to calls for improved standards of police conduct and training. Have new standards of conduct and training ended brutal police tactics?

It depends who you ask I think. If you ask a bunch of demonstrators, they'll probably tell you that the police are as brutal as ever. But if you ask the police, its gotten better. To look at it this way, would you rather be tased or hit in the head with a stick? That is a serious oversimplification, but you get the point. In some cities, NYC being one of them, there really hasnt been that much change in the past 50 years. Los Angeles on the other hand has gotten some pretty cool stuff, this foam pepper spray, tasers, rubber bullets....like I said, its all about perception.

I don't think it has ended it completely but I think there are improvements. Back then you could be beaten with a baton just for BEING somewhere, or in the case of Kent State, killed by National Guard. But you still see isolated cases of police brutality here and there, and unfortunately, unless someone has videotaped it, no one knows about it.

No, they have gotten better at them!

Law's don't apply to them, or so many think! Thank God for video tapes!

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