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SYDNEY - Police in Papua New Guinea regularly rape and torture women and children and are feared as much as the country's criminals, a human rights group said yesterday.
Human Rights Watch said violence against children held in custody was rampant despite recent attempts to reform the juvenile justice system.
The New York-based organisation reported a depressing lack of progress in cleaning up the PNG police force's conduct since a similarly damning investigation was released last year.
Law-enforcement officials were able to commit widespread abuses without ... Read more
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city of New Orleans, its police chief and the police department Wednesday on behalf of a New Orleans man who said he was brutalized by a group of officers.
The lawsuit is the latest bad news for a city struggling with crime while it recovers from 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Earlier this month, the latest FBI figures said the 162 murders in 2006 made the city far bloodier than any other in the United States.
New Orleans' murder rate and the aggressive policing policies in response have given some officers the idea they can ignore people's constitutional rights, the ACLU said.
Steven Elloie's body was bruised and scraped from being beaten, kicked, dragged by handcuffs and shocked with a stun gun, ACLU attorney Katie Schwartzmann said.
On June 23, 2006, according to the suit filed in federal court, six to 10 police officers forcefully searched the Sportsman's Corner Bar, where Elloie, 27, was manager. Police told patrons they were "looking for two guys in white T-shirts," Schwartzmann said.
When Elloie offered to help, he was thrown against a wall and severely beaten and kicked, the suit said. While he was on the floor, officers handcuffed him and shocked him twice with a stun gun, according to the suit.
Elloie was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and battery on an officer, but the charges were dropped when the officers failed to show up in court three times, Schwartzmann said.
Elloie filed a complaint with police, but the department's public integrity bureau classified it as "not sustained." The ACLU said the ruling was reached despite numerous witnesses who corroborated Elloie's complaint.
"It's really disappointing that there may not be a functional way to address the problems people have with the police," Schwartzmann said.
The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Police Superintendent Warren Riley did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
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