Letter: Brutal cops

Re: June 14 article: “DOJ slams Phoenix police over civil rights violations”. It saddens me to hear this in 2024. We formed a brutal police system to deal with runaway slaves; it persists today. And not just Phoenix, I have been victim of Tucson’s goon squad, pulled out of bed at 2AM, beaten, jailed in a cell with no mattress on the springs. And I’m white but dared try to inquire if having a gun jammed in my face during a traffic stop was OK with TPD. Maybe too many secret cultural police laws that makes them look more like a gang than a valid form of law enforcement