...Joey Nguyen ELA 11 Period 1 5/15/17 Police Brutality: Throughout history, the relationship between police officers and citizens of the United States has been at a steady decline. There have been countless cases of police officers injuring civilians ranging from minor bruises to fatal incidents. Regardless of the magnitude of their injuries, it’s police brutality and it’s unnecessary to maintain order. Police brutality is the use of extra or excessive force by police that results in injury, hospitalization, or death of civilians. In the United States, events of police injuring civilians have appeared more often and have become more serious as time progressed. Police officers have the power to enforce the law and protect citizens, but they...
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...Police brutality is widely held to have become a serious problem in recent decades in many countries. It is a subset of unjustified shootings, severe beatings, and abuse. The number of deaths and injuries is getting high from police abuse has directed our attention to the need all reasonable steps to ensure a safe society for people. There are many factors for the occurrence of police brutality. The most common factors are racial profiling, prejudices, and the pressure of work. Government laws try to prevent these factors from endangering the police in the working environment. I believe that police brutality is not only a United States problem, but also a global problem that quickly needs to be resolved. The definition of police brutality is...
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...Allegations of the use of excessive force by U.S. police departments continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots brought the issue to mass public attention and spurred some law enforcement reforms. On Staten Island, N.Y., the July 2014 death of Eric Garner because of the apparent use of a “chokehold” by an officer sparked outrage. A month later in Ferguson, Mo., the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson ignited protests, and a grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson triggered further unrest. In November, Tamir Rice was shot by police in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 12 years old and playing with a toy pistol. On April 4, 2015, Walter L. Scott was shot by a police officer after a routine traffic stop in North Charleston, S.C. The same month, Freddie Gray died while in police custody in Baltimore, setting off widespread unrest. The policeman in the South Carolina case, Michael T. Slager, was charged with murder based on a cellphone video. In Baltimore, the driver of the police van in which Gray died, Caesar Goodson, was charged with second-degree murder, with lesser charges for five other officers. There have been no indictments in the earlier cases. These follow other recent incidents and controversies, including an April 2014 finding by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), following a two-year investigation, that the Albuquerque, N.M., police department “engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive...
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...Ethnicity and the Police Part II Police Brutality and Corruption: New Orleans Police Department By Brittany Jackson Staff Writer BATON ROUGE- New Orleans Police Department is known for its harsh brutality, corruption, discrimination, and deadly force. The issue of citizen complaints has been a controversial concern in New Orleans. The complaints of citizens are generally a racial issue. African American civil groups have commanded civilian evaluation as a way of presenting independent assessments of complaints. Although the New Orleans courts planned to expurgate police corruption and brutality, the unruly behavior has increased. Over the recent years the New Orleans Police Department had a discreditable record for police brutality and many incidents were reported to the department Internal Affairs Division and the Office of Municipal Investigations. Some officers were charged for using excessive force towards victims, sometimes without adequate cause, and some suspects died while in the custody of police. The New Orleans Police Department has a history of police brutality cases including the case of Robert Davis. Robert Davis, a retired elementary school teacher and a resident of New Orleans was detained, arrested, and beaten by four white police officers on October 9, 2005 on notion of public intoxication. Davis was 64 years old at the time of the incident and was charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest, battery, and public intimidation which he pled...
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...In the world today many people have an unpleasant dislike for the police. It seems that the news have a habit of turning things into a propaganda which it makes many police officers look corrupted. When the case is that it is only a few bad police officers giving there colleague that are law abiding officers an evil name. I am not here to talk down about how bad the police are, I just to get people to know that police misconduct is really happening in the world, and it is very erroneous. However, it is not an issue with every single officer out there on the street. These officers are making the streets and America dangerous for the officers who are doing their jobs correctly. Police brutality is a problem with those who are involved,...
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...Unethical Police Lauren Siebert CJA/214 April 16, 2013 Richard Banahan Police corruption and misconduct is an issue that is very close to home for me. I am experiencing the outcome as I sit here today. Whether people want to hear it or not, police corruption does exist, it has for a long time and probably will for another long time. During the course of this paper I will talk about police corruption, misconduct, and brutality, present two cases in which these acts took place, describe the details of the case and their outcomes and address my feelings on that outcome. As of right now, I am living one of the worst nightmares that anyone could imagine. My family is personally going through a case of police misconduct and corruption. My brother- in- law was 18 years old when he passed away on November 22, 2011. His mother sold him three fentanyl patches in which he chewed all at once and overdosed. Our family knew right away that she was responsible for his death but know we just had to prove it. We gathered every bit of evidence that we could, text messages between the two of them blatantly discussing the sale and purchase of the drugs, eye witness testimony from his friends that witnessed the sale, a video of him stating that he had bought drugs from his mother and her sister, the wrappers from the patches that have a DEA number on them that can be traced through the pharmacy right back to her, and a death certificate stating cause of death as fentanyl...
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...Police brutality is an issue among cities and states, recently protested at football games. Football players have been kneeling down to the national anthem in order to protest against the issue. Police brutality is the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with normal day people. “Excessive use of force” means to do something well beyond what would be necessary in order to handle a situation, for example many policemen have been reported, shooting an unarmed person in the back. Even though police brutality is an issue it is disrespectful to the many people who fought for our freedom. NFL players should not kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality because the national anthem stands for our freedom that soldiers of the United States Army fought for....
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...There have been many cases where police justified force are commonly being labeled as ‘brutality’ when it should not be. Police brutality is the most common factor that has been going around in our society today. Not only those who pays close attention to the news daily about crimes and police officers doing their jobs, but those who cares about the situations that goes on in those crimes. It is not repulsively to rewind those crimes and see who was in the wrong first. For those who mistakenly blame the officers for killing those that had attacked them first are unacceptable to understand the situation. Not often do people see officers killing people for no reason; there is always a reason behind every crime of why an officer must have killed that person in the crime scene. It could be that the victim chose to attack the officer first and attempt to kill them; or maybe the victim had a mental issue to think killing the officer will be satisfying to them. The answer remains unknown for every crime scene that happens to deal with this “brutality” that people speak of. Clearly,...
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...English 1020 21 March 2016 Police Brutality The job of a police officer is to serve and protect their community and country, but some don’t see it this way and fail to do their job in an appropriate matter. Some take the law in their own hands and want to enforce punishment where punishment shouldn’t be enforced. These officers use their authority to take advantage of sometimes innocent people to have fun or to just prove a point. Police brutality is a big problem in today’s society which is caused by and contributes too many factors such as racism, incarceration, racial profiling, fear, and lack of training. What is police brutality and how has it become a problem in today’s society? Police Brutality is...
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...Police Brutality Throughout the several decades, there have been lots of issues between police and citizens. Many conflicts are between races, mainly African Americans. Police are abusing citizens, killing them, and shoot them several times to the point where the victim is on the ground in a pool of blood. An officer pulling a gun on a citizen causes the rate to go up, destruction in the community (riots), and the history of brutality, is common. The family of the victim has lost their loved ones. The main question is what causes the police to react this way? Is it fear? Could it be hatred? With the police killing innocent victims, the brutality rate continues to rise, with unwanted gun use. “This has led to 5,986 reports of misconduct,...
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...Assignment 2 Police Brutality Police abuse continues to be one of the most serious and harsh human rights violations in minority communities. However, it is particularly interesting that such violence and viciousness by police officials has managed to go unnoticed within the justice system and overlooked for so long. Police officers have too much control and power and they sometimes abuse their authority. The excessive use of force used by police officers continues because of barriers of immunity which make it possible for officers who commit such brutal acts to escape punishment and often to repeat their offenses. Police brutality is a serious problem and if this barbarity by police officers is allowed to continue, the citizens in these communities will not only need protection from criminals, but the police that are recruited to protect and serve our communities. In recent months, citizens in urban communities worry about protecting themselves from criminals and now have to keep an attentive focus on those who are there to protect and serve. Police brutality not only affects the officer involved, the victim of the beating and those who witness the incident, but the minority community as a whole. It changes the way communities and the individual citizens view police officers and the authority they uphold. Often these citizens are unsure of the rights they have against such cruel acts of violence which forces them to endure excessive force and the thin line that police officers...
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...Losing Count of Police Brutality Summary This article “King: So much police brutality that it’s hard to monitor” by Shaun King states that almost 2,000 people have passed away by the police. King also states that every day, at least 3 people are killed before they even go to jail and 8 people die in jail. He is saying that the amount of people killed by the police in America is impossible for civilians to keep up. He also mentions that he is ashamed that other loved ones are surviving but struggling because other families have lost a loved one due to police brutality. And he says, it is hard to imagine going through that. Can Police Brutality be Justified Summary This article “Justifying Police Brutality.” By Adam Serwer states that many people...
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...What is police brutality? What has it done to the United States as a nation? Who has it affected? Police brutality is excessive, unnecessary force by a police officer on a civilian. Police brutality has created many issues with the U.S. It has evoked many racial, cultural, emotional matters in the U.S. It has affected everyone in the United States of America. Many cases in U.S history shows that there has been police brutality for hundreds of years. Fear has been in all of the cases for years. A famous case of police brutality is the Steve Biko one. He was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the black consciousness. He was a leader to stop racial segregation in South Africa. He was beaten in prison by police had suffered head injuries and was rushed to another prison, also where Steve Biko would take care of in a hospital for his coma. But upon his arrival, he died. The police were not charged or suspended and never prosecuted. In 2015 approximately 1,000 people were shot by a police officer. 745 people were harmed and killed by a police official, and 90 people were unarmed and killed by a police official. Police brutality will not go away as the years increase it will only stay....
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...Police Brutality DeVry University Police Brutality Is it fair that law enforcement officers can use brute force to serve and protect the people of the United States? Police officers are here to protect and serve the people of this great country, however in some cases police officers abuse their power and their force and it becomes police brutality. Throughout its history the United States has seen many cases of police brutality against minorities. It is a very controversial topic among communities especially those in which minorities reside. Police Brutality is one of the most serious human rights violations in the United States. Police have to face many dangerous situations every day, they have to expect the worst and hope for the best while making split-second decisions. Being a police officer comes with the power of being able to take any citizens rights away, they also have the power to take someone’s life. We have to rely on those police officers own discretion when it comes to deciding the amount of force or sometimes lethal force when handling suspects. Police Brutality though it may not be a large predicament it should be viewed by both the police and the community. Police brutality is a hypocrisy, we are taught at a young age to believe that police officers are here to protect us from harm and keep us safe, not to harm us and cause us to fear them more than we do the criminals they are supposed to protect us from. We need to make sure police officers are properly...
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...Police Misconduct and its Social Impact Can Better Police Training result in a decrease of Police Brutality against minorities? A research paper submitted advocating the issues among police agencies in North America. This paper analyzes the protocol that determines the appropriate procedures for a safer community for the victimized minorities through use -of- force incidents. HSB4U1 December 11/12/2015 Summative Report Mrs. Kim By: Julianne Silva Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………Pg. 3 Chapter one: Police Issues American CCPSA Fixing Problems…………………………………………………………Pg. 4 America’s Flawed System……………………………………………………………………Pg. 6 Controlling the Police…………………………………………………………………………Pg. 7 Chapter two: Police Solutions The Debate over Body Cameras…………………………………………………………….Pg. 9 Changing Policies and Regulations...……………………………………………………….Pg. 10 Chapter Three: Community and Behaviour Police Subculture……………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Impact on Minorities…………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….Pg.14 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………………………Pg.15 Appendix A: Julianne Silva Survey Summary………………………………………………..Pg.17 Appendix B-1: ………………………………………………………………………………….... Appendix B-2……………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction One of the most controversial topics in police enforcement throughout history has been the issue between racial minorities and the misconduct of police officials...
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