Essay On Police Brutality

When you were a child, you most likely have read the story “The boy who cried wolf”. What this story taught you was that it isn’t a joke to go run and tell people something happened when it didn’t because eventually people will stop listening. So why is it almost every time a police officer takes someone to the ground they cry “police brutality”? Police officers are here to maintain order, protect citizens and safe guard property. They should not have to worry about if a miniscule action they take is a career ending one, but on the opposing side their authority and power should have its limits and limitations. Police Brutality does happen from time to time, but not to the extent

In current days and even days in the past, we have dealt with the issue of police brutality. Is it reasonable that police can utilize savage power to secure and serve the general population of our nation? In this Personal Perspective Project, I will analyze four different articles to answer this question. The term #BlackLivesMatter is the people of color saying that they are tired of police brutality against colored men. Interracial couples in Baltimore fear for their biracial children because they are half African-American. And officers killing men of color who didn’t do harm and didn't get charged because they were “saving the community”.

Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Yvette Smith are only four names out of the hundreds of victims that are affected by police brutality every year. Imagine knowing that your innocent 7 year old child died while sleeping in her own home due to the hands of a policeman during a raid. This is what Charles Jones reality had come to when he had to grieve the loss of his daughter without getting any justice. Currently so far in 2018, 466 people have died in the hands of police. Over the years, the number of deaths due to police brutality have only increased. Surprisingly, this doesn’t come to a shock to many people because police brutality has become more of a common occurrence throughout the years. This needs to come to an end. The police

In light of recent events, Minneapolis finds itself within heat of national topic, police brutality. Jana Kooren of ACLU of Minnesota writes in The Hard Truth of the Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protests: Communities of Color Have No Trust in Their Police Force. The authors main point of the article was to articulate the disaster that affects African Americans disproportionately. Jamar Clark is one in a thousand this year who have died in the hands of police who have overexerted their power. He sadly became another member of this deadly year, when two police officers shot him when he allegedly interfered with emergency responders helping an assault victim. She continues to emphasis how this problem is not local at it’s root, but national.

I believed that the common people should be allowed to hold arms and ammunition. I once said, the working class must be armed and organized. That in any case of attempting to disarm the working class it must be by force. Therefore, I believe that the government should not enforce the working class to disarm themselves of their weapons. Once the bourgeois outlaw all guns, it will be the horizon of a revolution. In which the state will endeavor to control the revolt by outlawing gun possession to oppress the revolt.

Police Brutality has been a problem since the early 1900’s, the problem majorly struck when Michael Brown was shot in 2014, this caused nationwide protest. “Activists blocked intersections, riot police arrived in armored vehicles and about 200 demonstrators were arrested” (The Washington Post). Organizations have been around to stop police brutality of African Americans, like the Black Panthers in 1966, who wanted freedom of African Americans and to stop all these problems that were occurring. Their goal was to have equal rights. The difference between the Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter is they mostly focus on police brutality. Studies show black citizens are more likely to be stopped by officers also white and black deaths in

    Lately, there has been a lot news on police brutality. All the citizens hear about is the person that is supposedly the victim. Yet, till this day, I still have not heard the side from the police force. Media gets out faster than the facts. Media is no longer based on facts, but based off of opinions of others. We assume because a few police officers are corrupt, that all of them are. Most of them aren’t terrible. Their human just like we are. Some assume the people that are assaulted, because they just feel like it. There has to be a reason why that police officer attacked a certain someone.

Recently in the media there has been an uproar about the treatments that citizens receive from the police in addition to how the citizens interact with police. Video footage has shown police brutality that is sometimes questionable, which often dictates on the how the community views them by causing tension. Accusations of Police brutality is nothing new but it isn’t until recently that it is being recorded and it is difficult to correct the actions of someone if there is not enough evidence provided. Recent advancements in technology police

Police brutality refers to the use of excessive force against a civilian. The controversies that surround the topic of police brutality relate to different definitions and expectations over what is meant by excessive force. Indeed, police officers are expressly authorized to use necessary, reasonable force to perform their duties. As Jerome Skolnick, an influential police scholar in the United States, underscores: “as long as members of society do not comply with the law and resist the police, force will remain an inevitable part of policing.” (Skolnick and Fyfe 1993). Others would quickly point out that there is also a difference between legitimate or legal force and illegitimate or excessive force by the police. However, Minority communities have been subjected for many decades to violence by those in law enforcement in the United States. One could argue that the use of force is not only a question of reacting to citizen violations of the law and resistance, but may also involve an array of actions that do not lawfully conform to the spirit of the law. Black people have endured violence in many different ways. Furthermore, over the last two decades, police brutality has been a major focus within the media towards Minorities. Unjustified fatal shooting of African American, excessive force when being arrested, racial profiling, or being disparate against. Police brutality might include, for example, the unlawful beating of a citizen by an officer under the cover of the

My group and I decides to create a sculpture that memorialized the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, and Mike Brown, six black men who were unjustly murdered by police officers. Over the years, police brutality has proven to be a major issue yet America tries to hide or defend such incidents. Our sculpture strives to do the exact opposite.

My essay is broken down into three parts. My essay is not to condone police violence nor to condemn it. My essay simply helps a person transition from the feeling of shock to something more realistic. I content that many people feel a deep level of shock when they hear about or see police brutality. My point is that people should expect it, even though it is wrong, and that people shouldn’t be shocked by it. My essay is broken into three parts, and will help you transition from a feeling of shock to a more realistic view of the world. I shall prove that police brutality is not shocking for a person with a realistic worldview.

It is truly saddening when the people who are supposed to be serving and protecting us are seriously injuring, maiming, and even killing citizens in our cities, communities, and country.

In our country, the past few years, we have had to face the issues of police brutality in our society. In many cases, we see that history repeats itself and that is the case that we are facing now. We thought that we as humans are equal and no one is above anyone but the past few years that has not been the case. Police brutality is seen as an illegal or excessive force by police, whether to affect a lawful goal or to achieve a corrupt one. I do not have a problem with police using force when the situation they’re in calls for it, but when they use force that could be avoided by just talking to the person and figure out their situation.

We, as humans, come into conflict on a daily basis at all times of the day. We encounter conflict on all levels in our home lives, social lives, entertainment and careers. Conflict is also brought to our attention second and third handedly through word of mouth and the mass media and the internet. Personally, locally, nationally, and globally conflict and problems surround us. Instead of addressing personalized conflicts, I would like to attempt to provide critical analysis on a crucial social issue facing the United States. This issue is police brutality, especially against minority, particularly black Americans. I will attempt to do this with the root cause tool of critical analysis and problem solving. The conflict of police brutality has made national and international news. It has also sparked a new social movement. While police brutality is not limited to minorities, the rate that it used against African American individuals is alarming. To further the problem, no perpetrator has been brought to justice and the victims and their families are left behind or blamed. I will be using Root Cause Analysis model of critical analysis. This strategy consists of five steps. They include:

There have been many disputes over the use of police violence in the last decade. Some cases that have gone national are Michael Brown in Ferguson, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, and Eric Gardner in New York City. All of these people have been killed by police officers during self-defense or other individuals think it is because of racism. Gene Demby worked for the Huffinghton Post and is a part of the National Public Radio’s Switched. She has given input on why these cases have gone so national and why police violence has been used. Police have a duty to protect and serve their city with great responsibilities. These cases have formed activist groups such as Black Lives Matter. This group believes that some white police officers single African Americans out because of the color of their skin. Police have to respond to action and all of these cases listed above are controversial. They all involve a white police officer taking a life of a young African American male. Heather Mac Donald received her education at Stanford, Yale, and Cambridge; she is an American conservative columnist and Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She gives some facts in Milwaukee