Creative Writing: Police Shooter

Each year law enforcement officers throughout the county are involved in shootings, some of them fatal. Frequently the shootings are reported by the media, which exploits the feelings of the victim while ignoring the effect of the shooting on the police officer. It is “estimated that approximately 87 percent of all emergency service personnel will experience a critical incident at least once in their career, which include officer-involved shootings” (Kureczka, 2002, p. 18). Officer-involved shootings have a profound effect on not only the officer involved but also their spouses, families, and the departments they serve. Law enforcement officers that are involved in officer-involved shootings need support and assistance such as critical incident stress debriefing and sometimes long-term trauma recover therapy in order to cope and live successful lives beyond the critical incident of the shooting.

The fatal shooting of unarmed Michael Brown by a Missouri police officer brought national attention when law enforcement officers use deadly force. (18 U.S.C. § 242). At the start of 2015, the Washington Post (WAPO) began compiling data on police officer shootings for the reason that the federal government data's was unreliable and incomplete. The WAPO data provides statistics relating to the victim's mental status, age, race, gender, circumstances involving the shooting, and whether the victim was armed with a dangerous weapon. The data since 2015 results in more than 2,500 individuals who lost their lives due to fatal police shooting.

This case provides the story of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald (17 years) in Chicago by Police Officer Jason Van Dyke on or about October 21, 2014. McDonald died after having been shot 16 times late on that evening by Van Dyke as he and others responded to a report of a man armed with a knife breaking into vehicles in a truck yard (CQ Research, 2016). McDonald, who had a record of juvenile arrests, allegedly refused the officers’ demands to drop his knife (CQ Research, 2016). After 400 days of the incident, the video from a police vehicle showed that McDonald, who was holding a knife was walking parallel, but away from the officers when he was shot 16 times by Van Dyke (Police Charges, 2015). The public has a right to know as much as possible about the rules governing the police and about investigations into allegations of police misconduct. Transparency holds police accountable and accountability builds trust in Police Department.

Over the past several years, there have been several high-profile police-involved shootings, and the justification behind the shooting has been questioned. Several of these shootings have resulted in a subsequent criminal conviction involving some form of a homicide charge for the police officer involved. This has created a great division between those who support and those who oppose the police. Police agencies and community leaders have sought to repair this relationship, and citizen police academies are one potential avenue.

Eric Garner. Keith Lamont Scott. Philando Castille. Michael Brown. Do you know who these people are? I am Arianna Dwomoh, a ninth grade at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh, NC. I want to write to you about how racial profiling/ bias is a large part of police shootings and arrests lately as most victims are unarmed people of color. Over the past couple of years, cops have shot and killed unarmed or innocent black men and boys. This shows light upon the worrying racial differences in how police use force. For those who critique the police, the numbers show that it's not just higher rates of gun ownership and violent crime that explain the higher number of police shootings in the US, compared to other countries. Maybe, it's the nonchalant

In 2016, 51.4% of all police killings involved an African-American male. False, in 2016 African-Americans only make up 26.5% of the police killings. What this means is that the vast majority of police killing do not involve an African-American, 51.4% is actually the number of white males murdered by police in 2016. Racial profiling does not exist. The conclusion to this paragraph is that based on these statistics, there is no evidence of inequality among police shootings.

Police Department’s approach to active shooters and the response to those incidents have changed drastically over the last (2) decades. To put it differently, Police Administrators now realize that the original tactics used to respond to active shooter incidents weren’t the best options available. It is best to first realize what the actual definition of an “active shooter” is. The agreed-upon definition of an “active shooter” by US government agencies is “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area” (“Active Shooter,” 2013). Additionally, it goes on to tell some of the reasons why an active shooter incident is so difficult to respond to. Specifically, the unpredictability and how brief the incidents themselves typically are (“Active Shooter,” 2013).

Police use of highly armed Swat teams has risen by 1500 percent in the last two decades, and many police departments have cultivated an “us vs. them” mentality toward the public they ostensibly serve” (Kristian, 2014). Although possession of these weapons do not cause misconduct, as the old saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.” In this article shows how police use weapons as powerful as the military and because of this matter many police officers use their weapons to overpower civilians. Police officers go over the limit of what they can and can’t do.

The civic current event I have chosen is the recent shootings of innocents by law enforcement. Within the past year there has been countless shootings... to many, the most well known ones are Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Freddie Gray. Michael Brown was shot 9 times in the body by officer Darren Wilson during an altercation that brown was fighting with the officer over the gun. This was because Brown had previously during that day had assaulted a store clerk and so he had a description set of him and Darren went to arrest him and then chaos ensued. Trayvon Martin was killed when a community watch member had shot and killed him for suspecting him of being a criminal even though he was innocent. Freddie Gray was killed during transport to

Police shootings of young Black males that ultimately result in their death have become an all-too-common occurrence in this country. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Gardner have highlighted police relations with this population. Before viable solutions can be established, a number of areas need to be addressed that relate to the historical context in which police relations with this group exist that impact current relations between the police and young Black males, why their lives are seemingly given less value by society than those of their White counterparts, the role that spirituality and religiosity play that may help to make connections between them and the police, and the benefit of the Black church in fostering amicable police relations with young Black males.

Firefighters and police get exposed to scarring traumatic experiences and dangerous situations such as facing the possibility of failure in saving everyone in a fire, the distress of stumbling across a corpse, or the horrors of killing someone, intended or not. This brings up the misconception surrounding the shoot-to-kill policy. To start, officers are actually trained to shoot-to-stop or to end the immediate threat. In the United States, deadly force is only granted under the impression they are in danger of significant bodily harm or threat. A common question civilians bring up to condemn this policy is, “why didn’t they shoot to disarm instead?” The reason why is because the concept of shooting to wound is problematic. One reason

The correlation between the police shooting and the violent crime is alarming. The majority of the American police officers is characterized by the extreme deadly usage of force. It has been reported that the number of police shootings has increased from 465 to 491 over the last six months of the year 2015. On the other hand, the police officers have also been on the receiving end. They have also been shot and sometimes killed while on duty. Over the same period, the country has also witnessed a number of officers prosecuted for shooting. However, it has been noted that the majority of the police shootings are associated with the racial disparities. This is because most of the police shooting within the last 18 months involve a white police officer and a black victim. A study conducted by the UC Davis in the year 2015 revealed that unarmed blacks are more likely to be shot by the police as opposed to the unarmed white counterparts (Kindy et al., 2016). In this paper, the shooting of the black man by the name Alton Sterling will be covered with the help of the ethical systems dilemmas to determine any potential dilemma components in the case.

The police shootings over the years have raised troubling questions about when, if ever, police are justified in using deadly force against a suspect. Many of police shootings may just represent a difference form of violence. Others law-enforcement officers may be physically incapable of taking a suspect into custody. For example, Peck (2016) writes about a $500.000 judgment against the District of Columbia when a police officer who was not in suitable physical shape used his weapon in the course of the arrest. How do we decide when a police officer can not only use force but shoot at a suspect even shoot to kill? The protection of life should be the primary value and guiding principle of the Police Department. As such, all levels of staffs

their motives for the shooting are different from the protagonist in the middle and high school cases, who broadcast threats in advance to try to reverse their negative reputations and become notorious for the purpose of attracting friends, we found that many high school shooters were ambivalent about following through on their threats, hoping the threat alone might help improve their image in the eyes of their peers. The college shooters are bent on notoriety, but they appear less ambivalent about the attack. This is critical because it impacts the lead up to the shooting. Because high school shooters are looking to attract attention, they let off warning signals that could at least potentially enable those who are within earshot to notify

As of today in 2017, we are too familiar with police shootings, especially in those of men of color. We have seen debate over these shootings with the organizations such as the NAACP and Black Lives Matter speaking out about them. These organizations voice their concerns of racial profiling by police officers. Is America seeing racial profiling by police through biased reports in the media or is there statistics to support the claim? For Essay No. 2: The Causal Argument, I will write about the causal issue of racial profiling. In order to discuss this topic, I will focus on the following three effects of this causal issue: Police shootings by race, incarceration by race, Median wage by race.