It's Time To Stop Police Brutality

Police Brutality Cases “When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.” (Berry) Recently police brutality has become an alarming issue in society. At the end of 2015, thousands of deaths resulted in accusing victims dying in police custody. Individuals in communities across the state are beginning to lose faith in law enforcement in their ability to properly do their jobs. Providing police officers with extensive and innovative training to give them the adequate length of experience and training will decrease police brutality.

There are several different types of force. These types of force include verbal commands or persuasion, physical force (unarmed), force using weapons that are non lethal, force that involves using weapons such as the bean bag gun or taser, and lastly, deadly force. All officers have to give way to each force option before last resorting to the use of deadly force, unless of course if the officer is in a life or death situation. This may be the only way to use deadly force in the first and last resort. They have a couple of weapons that they carry in case the need to use them arises. They carry a baton, tasers, handcuffs, guns and they also have police dogs. Some police do follow the guidelines for using force. Others may abuse their authority and not use force properly. It is really only up to the officers to do the right thing. Some cops are great and live to protect our communities while others abuse their authority.

I was really curious while researching this topic. I wanted to know any detail I could get from Videos, Newscasts, Articles, and Podcasts. Then of course with all of this research I had some questions, How long has this been a problem, What is the death rate from police. Then I came up with my driving question was: How can we end police brutality? It is clear we can make some suggestions on how we can end the tragedy, that is police brutality `

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The widespread of police brutality has widened all over the world. The nation must join together to eliminate repression, unjust and abusive treatment by the police in order to have a more

What are some of the things you see in the media today? Videos and articles about the saddening news of civilians being wrongfully harassed by police forces. What should be done to prevent police brutality? I believe that the local government should be more involved in trying their best to prevent police misconduct. This could be done by re-training officers, requiring body cameras or oversight committees and demilitarizing the police.

para. 3) Although this is fair, some of the officers go overboard and abuse their power. When you give a person that much power, it can go to their head and they can think they are above the law. With this mentality, it can lead to police brutality. Since there are so many instances of police brutality, we must come up with solutions to try and fix this problem. This essay will discuss some solutions that are beneficial to this situation. Some solutions that we can use to fix this police brutality in today’s society is to: have officers wear body cameras, train policeman to be members of the community, make officers obey the Fourth Amendment, establish a “use of force” standard, and banning racial profiling.

When a man gets robbed on the dark streets of the city he can resist and fight back. When a woman gets raped she can resist and scream for help. When the family home gets burglarized, family can call the police or use other means for protection. But what could a person do, be that man or a woman, if he/she is a victim of crime committed by law enforcement officers? Any resistance will only be met with further escalation of physical and emotional punishment in addition to criminal charges that will surely follow that person in courts. There is no use to cry for help because nobody has the authority to fight police. The channels for accountability for renegade police officers are limited and unfortunately more often then not two thirds of

Their abuse of powers does not only directly impact their victims, but the very people they pledge to keep safe. It also contradicts the rule of law (MULLINS, 2018). Recommendations for the future to limit the abuse of police powers, is to provide adequate training and reinforcements about not utilising more force than “reasonably necessary to make the arrest or to prevent the escape of the person after arrest” because applying more force than necessary is assault and is costing innocent lives globally. The training should be centred around reinstating that the use of firearms is the last resort, this will prevent more lives being lost due to abuse of police powers. An increase in the penalty associated with the crime and adding prevention measures is also applicable and essential to limiting the misuse of powers. In addition, all law enforcement officers should wear camera gear on their chest when receiving an incoming call, when making an arrest and when called to a scene. This will ensure primary evidence if issues arise. 100% of the survey respondents agreed with this recommendation. In addition, there should always be more than two officers attending a scene, this will decrease the likelihood of unreasonable actions from occurring in relation to brutality acts and civilians resisting arrests. To limit the racial and bias elements in regards to brutality incidents is to avoid racial stereotyping and try to incorporate programs that increase exposure and cultural competence within the police academy. There should also be an introduction of measures to ensure that police officers who engage in police brutality are properly investigated by a body other than the police force itself (Nedim, 2018), because if they were investigated by law enforcement officers, that could inflict bias perspectives

Some officers take advantage of what they're capable of by using force. I was with a friend of mine and we were walking towards the liquor when a police car pulled up in front of us. Mikey dresses the way most people would say “cholito” so when the officer stepped out and told him to put his hands behind his head I wasn't surprised. Mikey did what the officer asked but when he pushed him down to sit and then dragged him by one arm to get up, I watched and didn't say a thing, neither did Mikey. Thinking about it we were just walking, we weren't more than 50 feet away from our destination when this officer decided to pull us over and push him around. Nothing gives them the right to do more than what they're supposed to, when not having

Police can be credited for helping people during times of need and taking extra working hours in challenging situations. The streets may be scary to venture in due to criminals, but the police make it safe for us. Every day they will step out to deal with different types of violence in the society. However, that’s not an excuse to engage in appropriate behaviors (Perez, Douglas and Moore 119). Some of these misconducts include wrong arrests, police corruption, witness tampering, racial profiling, surveillance abuse, false evidence, intimidation, police brutality, and off-duty

Use of force has been a very controversial topic in the past few years. Use of force is supposed to be used only when it “becomes necessary and is permitted under specific circumstances, such as in self-defense or in defense of another individual or group”. When a police officer uses force against a suspect, I believe it should be equal to the crime and not be taken over board just because they know they have the power. Having power over a suspect shouldn’t mean taking advantage of the situation, but doing what’s right to protect and serve our fellow citizens because after all you are a police officer of the law and doing any more unnecessary violence doesn’t make you any better than the suspects. In most cases the suspects get unnecessary

Running Head: literature review Literature review: police brutality Cameron Howze April 28,2016 Intro to criminal justice: section 02 Tameka Vaught NCCU 1 Abstract This paper will be about the problems we face on police brutality. Also it will show the impacts it has had on different communities and what we could do to help solve these problems that brutality has caused. This paper also focuses on the troubles of a corrupt system that is plaguing the society we reside in.

A possible solution to Police Brutality would be retraining police officers to be trained to use non-lethal ways to subdue suspects and the use of lethal force only when necessary and having the training to deal with serious situations which requires lethal force, as well as having a lot of

In my opinion I think there are different options that we could retaliate on. For the most part we can maybe try to have the officer stay in a specific beat to allow the officer to