On 22 May 2017 the Moscow-based human rights organization Public Verdict Foundation, together with the Methodological Laboratory (a group of researchers led by Dmitry Rogozin of the Sociology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), published a report on public perceptions of human rights abuses by the police in Russia. As The Moscow Times reports, citing RBK, according to the study, which questioned 786 people, almost a quarter of Russians have witnessed or experienced beatings carried out by police and medical staff: "Some 22 percent of people said they'd seen police attacks firsthand, while 12.3 percent of respondents said that they had personally fallen victim to police brutality. Another 28.6 percent of Russians had heard of similar cases from family and friends. [...] Just 41 percent of respondents said that officials should be able to carry out 'minor' human rights violations for the greater good, but that figure rose when participants were asked whether a kidnapper should be tortured to give up the location of their underage victims (reaching 63 percent), or whether a doctor should be able to violently restrain a mentally-ill patient in order to administer drugs (73 percent)."