By David Sirota op-ed article I am a big fan of the “blame victim” attitude that has permeated many conversations about Police brutality in the past decade.

The idea that we should blame the victim of Police Violence because the victim is black or male, because he or she is an aggressor or because they were stopped in the street, or because of a drug or alcohol violation is a common refrain among those who argue for the use of more effective policing tactics.

But as the story of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, shows, blaming the victim isn’t necessarily a smart strategy.

The facts don’t support it, and the way to solve these problems is not to blame the police.

The truth is that the most effective way to confront police violence is to challenge it, to demand accountability and to use police force only when necessary.

This is the only way we can truly prevent the recurrence of the horrific violence in Ferguson.

There are other ways to stop police violence.

One of the most powerful and lasting ways to end police violence and racism is to demand that our police officers treat people fairly, and that they respect people’s rights.

As we look at the history of police misconduct in the United States, we need to remember that, at the root, it’s about power and control.

The history of policing is replete with instances of abuse and brutality by police.

In the decades following the civil rights movement, we have seen the emergence of the new police forces that took over the police departments of the suburbs, the urban police forces of the 1980s and 1990s.

They used their powers of intimidation, fear and coercion to subdue their political enemies, such as the Black Panthers.

As a result, the police have often engaged in police brutality and abuse.

And the history that followed is a history of repeated abuse by the police, especially as they have expanded into areas where they were not used to respond to crime.

In short, police violence in the US is a story of power and dominance.

Police brutality has become the norm, not the exception.

In fact, we see this pattern more and more in the American South, where police have been militarized, and where the police are increasingly empowered.

Police violence and racial profiling are still widespread in many parts of the country.

In many cities, the number of people stopped and frisked is up, even as the number arrested for those crimes continues to drop.

There have also been increases in the use and abuse of force against African Americans and Latinos, particularly in areas where police use excessive force.

But despite all this, we also see that police brutality is being challenged and ended.

For example, the civil-rights movement and the era of mass incarceration that followed saw the growth of a movement for justice that came to be known as “civil rights.”

That movement fought for the right to be heard, to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and to have the presumption of innocence overturned by a jury.

This movement created a new body of law that included the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, which requires the defendant to provide evidence that supports his or her version of the facts before being allowed to enter a plea.

But the right against double jeopardy and the presumption is no longer an absolute right.

It has also been interpreted to require that the defendant must prove that he or her innocence, or even that he is not guilty, before a prosecutor can bring a criminal case against him or her.

This practice has been used to convict more than 100,000 people over the past 50 years, but it has been increasingly used to prosecute people for things that, for the most part, are not crimes.

In other words, when police are stopped for a traffic violation, for example, they have not violated any laws or broken any laws, so they do not need to be charged with a crime.

Instead, the officer must simply assert his or herself as the aggressor, and ask the driver to move.

And while many Americans may not know this, most of the people stopped for traffic violations are white, middle-class, and young.

As the police become increasingly more aggressive in their efforts to keep us in line, these officers are becoming increasingly militarized.

And as more and less Americans have access to the internet, police officers are also becoming increasingly empowered and increasingly willing to use force against people of color.

In some cases, officers are armed with weapons and body cameras, and in some cases they have deployed military-style tactics that have drawn widespread condemnation from the public and legal experts.

But it’s important to remember, too, that police violence against minorities and the poor is not limited to these communities.

The police are also committing a number of serious abuses against immigrants, women, and LGBT people.

Many of these crimes, like the illegal entry into the United State of Central America by a group of Mexican and Honduran

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