Surasak Threerattrakul, director-general of the Office of the Attorney General, said after considering all the witnesses and evidence from the National Anti-Corruption Committee "we agree that the case substantiates a criminal indictment charge against Yingluck".
That's compared to 16.5% of cases substantiated nationwide, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services' 2016 report on child maltreatment.
Mr. Giuliani said this month that he supported improvements in how the department handles abuse cases substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent city agency, but he provided no specifics.
But the report underscored a trend the board has long found -- that blacks are disproportionately the victims of police abuse: In 364 cases substantiated by the board and referred for discipline, blacks -- who make up roughly 25percentt of the city's population -- accounted for almost half the victims.
More than 91,000 babies were mistreated in their first year of life in the United States in 2006, according to the first national estimate of abuse of the nation's youngest, most vulnerable children, prepared by federal officials on the basis of cases substantiated by state and local children's protective services agencies.
She said this was the case "particularly post-Snowden, where we were realising that there was a suspicion, in some cases substantiated, that the security services have total access to whatever is happening online".
The report looked at 10 chokehold cases substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board between 2009 and 2014.
Given the population differences, that's about six and a half times the Canadian rate, though Statistics Canada only includes cases "substantiated by police" while the UK data cover those "recorded by police".
Two studies focused on children with diaphyseal femur fractures and no additional injuries reported lower prevalences of cases substantiated as abusive by Child Protective Services (CPS) in their samples (2.4% and 7.9%) [ 22, 26].
