Keganasan polis merupakan perbuatan salah laku polis yang melibatkan penggunaan kekerasan yang tidak patut dan melampau oleh anggotanya.[1] Kekerasan sebegini dapat dilihat di banyak negara, termasuklah negara di mana pemerintahnya mengharamkan tingkah laku ini dalam undang-undang.[2]
Dua orang polis menyerang seorang awam semasa rusuhan yang berlangsung di Harlem, New York pada tahun 1964. [Gambar ditangkap seorang jurugambar bersama akhbar New York World Telegraph & Sun]
"Police Brutality: A Prisoner was shamefully beaten by Officers, he was Kicked and Pounded in a Cell ---Probably Fatally Injured". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 12, 1872.
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