Boys are bruised by their ferocity, women insulted by their ruffianism and that which brutality has done, perjury denies, and magisterial stupidity suffers to go unpunished. Scarcely a week passes without their committing some offence which disgusts everybody but the magistrates. The term 'police brutality' was first used in Britain in the mid-19th century, by The Puppet-Show magazine(a short-lived rival to Punch) complaining in September 1848:
Early records suggest that labor strikes were the first large-scale incidents of police brutality in the United States, including events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, the Ludlow Massacre of 1914, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe Massacre of 1924. By the 19th and early 20th centuries, many nations had established modern police departments. The origin of modern policing can be traced back to the 18th century France. Police brutality is the modern form of violence by the state against civilians. 3.1.3 Black Americans and the US police.3.1 Effects of police brutality in the United States.2.3.27.3 Public dissatisfaction and discrimination.2.3.1.3 Actions to combat police officers brutality.
