Brief Summary Of Duncan's Shooting At Parliament Hill

An example of how the police services do their job properly “Norfolk Police Officer Up For Bravery Award” this officer put his life at risk by trying to do his job correctly. Paul Ridgway the Chairman of Norfolk Police Federation said “We are extremely pleased that Martin has been chosen to be nominated for an award for the bravery he showed during this particularly different and significant incident”. This is effective as all the other police officers will look up to Martin and will want to do something as brilliant he has done.

Over the last few years, many citizens across the country have been stepping up and voicing their opinions of police brutality. Thanks to many recent amateur videos, there are many cases where I feel police could have handled situations differently. It is important that police should use lethal force only as a last resort. When there are no laws enforced on the people who enforce them, total anarchy can

Unfortunately, today these account for mostly failed attempts. More than two decades later and with a growing number of incidents, the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has

There have been several changes in the aftermath of the attack on Stephen Lawrence. Initially, the effects on public attitudes towards the Police and the way they handle race related crimes in Britain. It left many people (particularly from ethnic backgrounds) very angry, questioning whether they could put their trust in the British system any longer and if it operated in a fair and democratic manner?

A recent current event that is shown in media is the shooting of a Virginia State Trooper at a Greyhound bus station. This tragedy occurred Thursday, March 31, in the afternoon around three p.m. A Virginia state trooper was said to be talking to another individual, the suspect, and then the suspect pulled out a gun and shot the trooper leaving him with serious life threatening injuries. After the suspect shot the trooper other State Troopers began firing their weapons on the suspect. This tragedy ended with the suspect dead, Virginia State Trooper with serious injuries, then later died and two female civilians with not so serious injuries from the gun shots. Virginia state police do not know why the suspect pulled out his gun on the trooper and why in a bus station where many are surrounding and can get injured. Police also found out that the suspect has a long history of crime and gun use. Although there is many different

The way police manage critical incidents is of upmost importance. An incident that is manged well, will raise public confidence in the police, however if the incident is managed poorly it can have devastating effects on the victim and the general public will subsequently lose confidence in the police. ACPO’s definition of a critical incident is as follows “Any incident where the effectiveness of the police response is likely to have a significant impact on the confidence of the victim, their family and/or the community” (Constabulary, December 2007) Any police officer can notify an incident as possibly critical, therefore, police officers must always be aware of the potential for any incident to escalate and become critical. A critical incident can include; Suspicious, unexplained deaths, Homicides, Incidents requiring a police firearms response, Vulnerable persons missing from home, Domestic Violence, Crimes involving particularly vulnerable or young victims and hate crimes, which will be our focus. For our essay, we will be critically analysing Leicestershire’s police force’s ‘critical incident’ management of the case of Fiona Pilkington which is a case of anti-social behaviour that deeply affected public confidence. Whenever a critical incident is identified, it must be addressed sharp and efficiently. Reassuring, rebuilding and maintaining the confidence of the victim, their family and community should be fundamental to critical incident management (Thames Valley Police,

Each year citizens die in encounters with law enforcement officers. It is reported that “Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist” (Rucke, 2013). Although there is no official data base tracking these occurrences it is estimated that between 500 and a 1,000 people are killed by police officers each year. To put this in greater perspective this number equals approximately 5,000 since the 9/11 terror attack which is roughly the same number as U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty in Iraq (Rucke, 2013). This statistic is justifiably concerning. The cause of police related killings are multifold and cannot be attributed to only one factor. Many deaths may be unavoidable and perhaps, dependent on the situation, necessary. I contend, however, that many of these deaths may very well be preventable.

“All units, please respond to a suspicious man walking on the street between 2nd st main st.” A police officer driving his beat responses to the dispatch as any officer would. Little does he know that he will be in an officer involved shooting and be the reason for protests and riots only because he was doing his job and following protocol. This is too often the case as the media and society are quick to judge what happens in an incident like this. When these tragic incidents happen it's no wonder why cops don't want to go into crime and poverty ridden neighborhoods because they will just be harassed for doing their job by the media and society.

Policing relies on the public trust, police legitimacy and accountability, which can be destroyed by unjustifiable police shootings (Squires and Kennninson, 2010). Within this country, there is a recognition that the police do not always adhere to the rule of law (Newburn and Reiner, 2012: 809), which has led to consistent public outrage at the lack of effectiveness and legitimacy the police has maintained. Therefore the deliberate decision to enforce police to attend to the streets unarmed was employed to reassure the public that the police were not to be feared (Waddington and Wright, 2010). Ultimately, concerns derive from the belief that the police are completely ineffective when dealing with gun crimes (Farrell, 1992: 20). However,

This topic isn’t anything new and has going on for a long period of time; social injustice, racism, violating citizens’ rights, unfair discrimination, but most of all taking innocent people's’ lives. Ever since Ferguson, more and more people are scared of the police. All the protestors are trying to do is relay the message and trying to fix the problem, but according to the police they just “make things worse”. During the days the town was protesting, they weren’t doing anything violent, on the contrary they had posters to show truce and just wanted to get answers. The police told them to return to their homes and to stop the marches, but the citizens refused causing the flame to grow, so the police started to physically remove protestors from the streets injuring some and threatening those who didn’t do as they were told.

I recently interviewed a dear friend of mine, Mohammad Tall, who shared one of his many experiences with me about his encounters with the police. This past March, Mohammad and his friend Bilal decided to go to Hollywood Park in College Park, MD. The time was 9:53pm. Mohammad and Bilal were casually sitting in the park, when they noticed an unmarked vehicle with tinted windows sitting on the street. The time now was 10:37pm. The unmarked vehicle zoomed over to the area where Mohammad and Bilal was sitting. An officer dramatically jumped out

Currently, police have murdered a total of 942 civilians in 2016. In the month of September alone, police have murdered a total of 48 civilians. These statistics provided by The Counted, only include murders that have been reported. There are hundreds, probably thousands, of unreported murders that we will never know about, names that we will never see trending on social media, bodies that were never returned to their families, bodies that were returned to their families but with fabricated stories and explanations, people who no one could mourn because no one knew about them.

Another example that instead represents police negligence and civilian brutality is the case of Trayvon Martin. Trayvon was a boy in his teens trying to get to his father’s girlfriend’s house when he was gunned down by local civilian, George Zimmerman. His murder actually got away with the crime for some time because police claimed “they found no evidence to contradict Zimmerman’s assertion that he acted in self defense after Martin attacked him” (Onwuachi-Willig 1115). With further investigation evidence revealed that Mr. Zimmerman “called 911 to report Martin as a ‘suspicious person’, but then disregarded the 911 operator’s directives to remain in his car and leave Martin alone. Instead, Zimmerman chased, confronted, and ultimately shot and killed Martin after a physical struggle” (Onwuachi-Willig 1115). Zimmerman was of white descent and acted as a neighborhood watchman for the community. By chasing Martin he ignored both his watch leader and the 911 operator. Zimmerman was eventually charged with second-degree murder, but the time it took for that to happen made many black people feel as though their lives mean nothing to cops. This example portrays not physical brutality by the cops, but negligence that allowed a murder to roam free for six weeks.

David Marris MP, Member of Mornington, Shadow Minister for finance, in his legislative assembly speech on 10th of September 2008 spoke on many unfortunate events of street violence and mentioned how many authorities are involved to take charge of the occurrences. He has also highlighted the fact about the blame game, where no authority takes charge of the issue and pushes it to a higher authority of governance, which automatically leads to Minimal or null justice to the victim.

The widespread violent reaction of the public could have been avoided had there been a clear rationale behind the officers’ actions been not only adhered to, but also communicated by the media. Instead of trying to insulate the public from some facts they may have difficulty in digesting, it is vital to take the time and effort to disclose all the facts backed with an adequate commentary of the events.