Police Brutality: What's Really Going On? "Police regularly utilize varying levers of abuse, threat, and torture to extract confessions and demonstrate police effectiveness in fighting crime." Kerwin Brook. That's what the question is, is this a correct thought or are the police and their technics misunderstood? To understand why this "brutality" happens lets see what a police officer goes though when they are pulling someone over. First they need to be stopped, and that's where I think the majority of the problems might occur. If someone runs from the police it creates a dangerous environment for the police offi