...the violence that is going on today with differences between the police and communities around the united states? For instance, the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Mass murdering in public places. Such as, the movies where families go to have a good time. Schools should be a safe place where children go to get their education. Instead we have shootings in movies, schools and even at marathons. How can we trust a government that is letting innocent civilians die because their letting these problems happening over and over again? In that in mind I believed the government should try more to stop the violence to make a safe environment for our families. First the government should educate communities on how to cooperate better with police to help prevent problems in their community. In reality, if a black person gets stop by the white policeman they are less likely to cooperate with them rather than a black policeman. Black policeman understand how the african-americans have a history of not trusting the law, like what happen in Cleveland, Ohio. For example, A 12 year old boy named Tamir Rice was killed in November 2014 at a recreation center. Tamir was accused of point a gun at people at the park. When the...
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...black male deaths at the hands of white police officers. “For decades the United States has had a history of deadly racially tinged police confrontations, many of them involving unarmed black men.” (Lizette Alvarez, New York Times) The United States police departments have been constantly under review for unjustified shootings within the black community. “ At least seven U.S police departments have been subjects of federal review since the wake of fatal police shootings since 2010.” (Kevin Johnson, USA Today) Are white cops really that scared of young black males to kill them? Or are they just using their race power to kill of black males without getting in trouble? Most...
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...Police Action Shooting Opinion Paper After reading this article, you can see that it shows numerous facts about police action shootings. However, the facts make the situations seem negative. People who aren’t educated in criminal justice would think that police are just shooting to shoot. The only part that would stand out is how many shots were fired at the assailants. Many readers would assume that police are out to kill civilians and criminals, but that is not the case. Police training was sparked after a gunfight on April 5, 1970 that left four CHP officers dead in Newhall, California. There were two convicted felons and four officers involved in this shooting. Between the four officers, there were fifteen rounds fired, yet only one was...
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...Introduction In common law, there is a phrase used to describe justified police shootings. This particular phrase is referred to as lawfully apprehended, meaning that the arrest, and the precautions that are taken to make the arrest, must be lawfully reasonable. Then there is a term for those who shoot to kill, assisted suicide, which is death by a cop. This can be either justified or unjustified, depending on the circumstances. For example shooting someone who poses a danger to his or herself as well as others, justified, versus the shooting and killing of a person who had a wallet in his pocket, unjust. Before I dive into the significance of police shootings as it is witnessed throughout the world, I would like to compare a couple of things. Are Police officers who shoot to kill any better than civilians who...
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...Police Responses to Officer-Involved Shootings Introduction Both mental health counselors and police professionals have investigated and detailed the ecstatic impact of officer-involved shooting incidents. Post-shooting trauma has resulted in many departments seeking professional support for officers involved in shootings. Research shows the percentage of officers who experienced exceedingly high, moderate, or no responsive impact after involvement in a shooting. Evaluation of Personal Impact of the Study from a Police Officer’s Perspective This research has an immense personal impact on officers. The physical, psychological and emotional reactions of police officers after a shooting incident vary. If the findings of this research were to be implemented, it would have a positive, personal effect on the police officers involved in shootings (Klinger, 2006). The findings showed that most officers experience physiological, psychological, and emotional reactions just before and as they fired a gun. Their recollections of the event were found to be vague, or in extreme cases, they could not remember the incident at all. Also, exceedingly few officers experienced long-lasting negative effects after a shooting. Their post-shooting reactions were influenced by actions and attitudes of family, friends, colleagues, and investigators. These reactions lessened as activity and attention about the incident diminished (Klinger, 2006). Many police officers...
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...Police shootings have covered media headlines for the past couple of years. As a result of police shootings in 2017, 982 people have been shot and killed. Citizens have continued to riot in cases where this brutality exceeds the standard range of punishment. Fatal shootings have and are becoming common. Police officers responsible for the killings are not held for long before they are released to their normal duties. Studies have noted that police use this force to the minority groups. For instance, African-Americans have confidence that the police use this force on suspects, rather than the ideal victims of the offense. On the other hand, a number of people think that the excessive force is necessary to prevent additional crimes in the society....
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...Police can not legally shoot a fleeing suspect unless they pose a threat to an officer’s life or the office has the strong belief that the suspect poses a substantial danger to the public. So when Laquan Macdonald, an African- American Chicagoan male , was shot by a police office in 2014 as he was walking away from the police, people were outraged. Many people in Chicago are still feeling the wrath of this shooting as it took over a year for the police to release the dashboard video of the shooting, which resulted in a Chicago Officer facing murder charges. This trend of police shootings unfortunately didn’t stop there. Now in 2016 we are still seeing horrendous events like the Macdonald shooting happen, not only in Chicago but widespread in the United States. A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against another Chicago officer by the family of Mr. O’Neal, an African-American Chicago man that was shot and killed this month after he...
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...To the editor, the recent police shootings of mainly african-american men are very concerning and they raise a lot of questions about racism in the police and in the justice system. Many victims arte both unarmed and innocent. More has to be done to prevent these kinds of shootings from happening and to rid the American justice system of its racism. Minorities have been facing discrimation for a long time but in most ways things have improved. The justice system is one of the places were racism still exists and it's one of the most important causes of the problems black people are struggling with today. One of the early shootings that got attention was the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was shot multiple times by a police officer, but since then too many similar shootings have occured. These events are examples of how african-americans and other minorities are treated differently by the police and by courts. An african-american man isn't just more likely to be shot by the police. If he's found guilty of a crime he's more likely to end up in prison, recieve a longer prison sentence or to recieve the death penalty than a white man guilty of the same crime. There has to be more focus on preventing these shootings and eliminating racism in the justice system. Black lives...
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...Another major example of white police killing an unarmed black male was the death of Eric Garner by the use of a chokehold from a police officer in an altercation involving said officer and several others. Garner was being arrested for selling “loosies” which are single cigarettes when the arrest turned violent. A police officer proceeded to mess with Garner and according to a video of the situation, he was telling the officer he was minding his business and to leave him alone. The officer then attempted to handcuff Garner causing Garner to snatch his hand and say “Don’t touch me please”. This set the officer off and he wrestled Garner to the ground and put him in a chokehold. This event hit home to black people because, unlike the Mike Brown...
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...and Ronald Inglehart’s articles. The central theme of Hirschfield’s article is why American police officers kill so many citizens compared to European police officers while Laczko’s article focuses on an international survey regarding the national identities of different states...
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...manufacturing giant MMI, has a great team. Everyone works hard and gets along. Everyone, that is, except Max Dyer. Max is a talented programmer, but he's terrible in the interpersonal skills department. So terrible, in fact, that three years ago Lynne reworked his job after employees complained that he was unengaged and even belligerent. Since then, he's been a solid worker, putting in extra hours and meriting good performance evaluations. But recently, Max's coworkers have noticed a change for the worse in him. True, everyone at MMI is on edge after a round of layoffs, but Max's behavior seems like more than a case of the jitters. To make matters worse, reports of a workplace shooting in Seattle are all over the news. Paige overhears Max shouting at someone on the phone. George finds Max pinning up a certificate from a shooting range in his cubicle, and Nicole, who worries they will all end up as statistics of office violence, wants to know how Lynne plans to ensure their safety. When Lynne tries to talk to Max, it's clear he thinks his coworkers are out to get him. And the truth is, they believe he fits the profile of a man on the edge. But what can Lynne do about an employee who has never made so much as a veiled threat to anyone? Commentators James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University; Steve Kaufer, a cofounder of the Workplace Violence Research Institute; Christine Pearson, a management professor at Thunderbird; Christine Porath, a professor of management...
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...A Disgusted Diction Many stupid choices are made by a dare or when their made fun of. Many effects of these choices are usually not good. This has happened many times including in the short story shooting an elephant. A Even though George Orwell appears to be an authority figure in the short story the author's diction, is a tone of disgust and mockery. To begin, Orwell portrays the mocking tone of the Burmese people as harsh insults. For example “There were several thousand of them in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans” (Orwell). The diction that sticks out in this sentence is the word jeering, cause jeering itself sounds like an insult and it also sounds really...
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...George Orwell's essay 'Shooting an Elephant' gives remarkable insight into the human psyche. The essay presents a powerful theme of inner conflict. Orwell feels strong inner conflict between what he believes as a human being, and what he believes and should do as an imperial police officer. The author is amazingly effective in illustrating this conflict by providing specific examples of contradictory feelings, by providing an anecdote that exemplified his feelings about his situation, and by using vivid imagery to describe his circumstances. A police officer in the British Raj, the supposedly 'unbreakable'; ruling force, was afraid. With his gun aimed at an elephant's head, he was faced with the decision to pull the trigger. That officer was George Orwell, and he writes about his experience in his short essay “Shooting an Elephant” to save face, he shrugged it off as his desire to “avoid looking the fool” (George Orwell, 77). In truth, the atmosphere of fear and pressure overwhelmed him. His inner struggle over the guilt of being involved in the subjugation of a people added to this strain, and he made a decision he would later regret enough to write this story. In his essay, Orwell describes how the abuses and treatment he witnessed oppressed him with an intolerable sense of guilt, (Orwell, 72). This is not some minor pang, or nagging worry. The shame pressed down on his shoulders with an unbearable weight. He also describes the injustices in detail...
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...been 137 fatal school shootings and 297 lives were lost to these unnecessary acts of violence. In the United States, the threat of school shootings has been an increasing danger to students and teachers alike. Even on July 26, 1764, four Lenape American Indians came into a school and killed the schoolmaster and nine or ten children, this is known as the Enoch Brown school massacre and was a notorious part of Pontiac’s rebellion. The more recent shootings such as Columbine and Virginia Tech a majority of those victims were students. Many of the victims cannot rely on police in the beginning of these attacks, the average shooting lasts around 12 minutes but average police response time is 18 Minutes. Teachers should be able to carry concealed weapons because armed teachers and staff can decrease the threats of school shootings, intruders on campus, and respond to threats faster than the time it takes police officers to respond. The police are effective in handling these threats but the response time can take too long, with school staff members armed with concealed weapons they can stabilize the situation before the police arrive. Carrying a concealed weapons could escalate the confrontation and...
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...motivates a spree. On August 1st 1966, Charles Whitman, a student at the University of Texas in Austin and a Marine, climbed twenty-seven stories up the university’s tower carrying a small arsenal. Upon reaching the top, he barricaded himself on the observation deck, after killing several people inside, and proceeded to randomly shoot people from there. According to Wikipedia, the sniper fire started shortly before noon and continued for several hours, until several police officers managed to gain entry to the observation deck, killing Mr. Whitman. It was later learned that Charles Whitman had complained about severe headaches and that he had a brain tumor, leading to much conjecture that this was the reason for his instability. Mr. Whitman, all in all, killed fifteen people, including his mother and wife the day before, and injured thirty-one. The University of Texas at Austin massacre, prompted police authorities to consider formation and use of SWAT teams, in dealing with situations that go beyond the call of regular police activities. Michael Carneal, who shot into a prayer group in Paducah, Kentucky, was constantly baited by...
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