"We're not talking about the inconveniences we all face at the airport; what we are bringing to light today before Congress is the use of excessive and coercive interrogation tactics that cause concern for all Americans and people of faith, not just members of the Muslim, Arab and South Asian American communities," Farhana Khera said.
In October 1999 the organization issued a report "Summary of Amnesty International's concerns on police abuse in Chicago" which expressed concerns including improper interrogation tactics, excessive force, shootings of unarmed suspects, and the detention and interrogation of children.
Following a visit to the country in March 2015, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Christof Heyns expressed concerns about police use of excessive force during arrest, interrogation, and pre-trial detention, sometimes resulting in death.
This is sometimes referred to as Othello syndrome.3 This form can further intensify with aggressive, unjustified interrogations and excessive sexual demands.
Nationally, 23 of the nation's top 50 cities, including Miami, San Diego, Philadelphia, Seattle and Houston, have either begun or are planning programs to combat excessive roadway stops and street interrogations of blacks and Hispanics, said John M. Crew, national coordinator of the American Civil Liberties Union's Campaign Against Racial Profiling.
expressed concern about "the excessive redactions" to the report on interrogation tactics, adding "especially given the president's unequivocal commitment to declassifying the Senate Intelligence Committee's study".
By elevating form over substance and ignoring the real-life circumstances of the police interrogation, the majority gave police officers excessive leverage and badly undermined the Fifth Amendment's protection.
"It certainly raises the very serious question about whether there is a pattern of practice of constitutional violations, of excessive force, denial of right to counsel, coercive interrogations," said Bagenstos, now a law professor at the University of Michigan.
"We continue to receive reports about excessive force used during demonstrations, and allegations of ill treatment during interrogations".
Mr. Panetta complained that he was being chastised for excessive openness after being criticized for excessive secrecy when he pushed to withhold details from the interrogation memos.
