The History of Police Torture

In the first half of the twentieth century, it was not illegal for police in the united states to torture people. Charges could be brought against cops if they committed assault or bat in breach of their regulations. Some states had laws to prohibit the use of violence to force confessions, but that was not an acrossthe board sort of thing. A more common and prevalent term was the third degree, which was adopted as wolve's jargon in the late nineteenth century,. It entered the general american vocabulary in the early twentieth century.