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ZNet |Race | Chicago Police Brutality: "In fact, in 1998, Human Rights Watch investigators found that police brutality is widespread in Chicago, but is almost never punished. During 1996 and 1997 alone, the police department's Office of Professional Standards (OPS) had 6,000 excessive force complaints. 'In 1996, during which more than 3,000 complaints against the police were filed with OPS,' the Human Rights Watch report said, 'the board decided six cases in which the superintendent sought dismissal based on excessive force charges: in one case, a firing was reduced to a suspension; in another, the charges were withdrawn (which usually means an officer resigned before a case was heard); and four officers were found not guilty.'"

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