On the other hand, the authors of this article are implicitly placing trust in the statistics presented by the various arms of the US government, and criticizin

On the other hand, the authors of this article are implicitly placing trust in the statistics presented by the various arms of the US government, and criticizing the police, for instance, because they punished officers for corruption. Would they rather such things go unreported? Everything in the article is public knowledge, and could, on the whole, been lifted verbatim from the reports of several non-profits in the US (ACLU, etc.). That's the difference between China and the US.