| Sumario: | This study analyzes complaints of violations of the right to personal integrity received during five years in the Comisión de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Commission) of Mexico City, with two aims. First, to describe differences in police abuse cases according to their place of occurrence. Second, to know which factors increase the likelihood of serious abuse committed in situations of detention or control a person. These factors allow to compare different theoretical traditions about the excessive use of police force. The results show that the presence of the most consolidated factors from the theoretical perspective of the criminal threat at the situational level, -the active resistance and the situations with serious crimes-, are those that significantly increase the probability of the occurrence of serious police abuses in Mexico City.
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