Police Attractiveness: Non-Discriminatory Or Responsive?

A great deal of society views law enforcement officers as heroic and honorable individuals, whose main purpose is to protect and serve the community. For many officers, this description is accurate, however for others; violence and brutality against innocent citizens is the key to getting the job done. For years, minorities have fallen victim to police brutality based on racial profiling, stereotypes and other unjustifiable reasons that has cost several innocent lives. The involvement of officers in police brutality against minority social groups causes tainted and negative views on policing and their overall duty to protect, when they are ultimately the aggressors in this case. Police brutality is a violent incident involving an officer and a victim, usually including excessive force, unnecessary violence and sometimes resulting in a senseless fatality. Minority groups such as African Americans and Hispanics have often been the victims of this form of abuse by officers, however little justice has been done in order to protect these individuals from this form of cruelty by the hands of those with the most power.

Recently, our country has undergone tremendous suffering due to police brutality. Some police officers are taking the law into their own hands and intertwining their personal views and stereotypes on the black community. They are committing inhumane crimes on African Americans and our justice system is allowing it to continue. Several police officers are noticing that if they commit this crime out of pure hate it is acceptable and the courts will rule in their favor. It continues to happen because there is no punishment for their wrong doing.

This is proof that there is racial discrimination in law enforcement that affects police brutality. This also reinforces the culture of people of color being less human than white people, which takes its roots all the way back to slavery in America. When slavery was still prevalent in the United States, white people believed that black people(slaves), did not feel pain like they felt pain. After slavery was abolished, black people were still strongly regarded as inferior to white people and white people still saw them as wild creatures rather than human beings. White people saw themselves superior to every other race of people, so it was common for them to mistreat other races that weren’t white. This mindset is not as strong as it was in the past but, it is still strong enough to affect the choices police officers make during interactions with people of color. As a result of discrimination at the police level, many people have turned to court system’s to reach justice.

There is a major issue with police brutality within the confinements of the United States of America, within society in general. The problem of police brutality is not just a problem with African American, it is spread throughout all the races. “Mr. Castellani who is 20 years old, yelling and pointing at officers, who are posted down the street, after his ejection from an Atlantic City casino for being underage. Four officers rush him, take him down and begin beating him -- a fifth officer soon joins in.”(The Baltimore,Leonard Pitts Jr.). It just so happened that this man was black and had been brutally attacked by police because he said something they didn't like it. It isn't always African Americans that are attacked thought, in 2014 Donovan Duran, a Colorado MMA fighter, was beat and dragged to the hospital by police men claiming Duran was intoxicated and hallucinating. He was brutally attacked because of what he believed in, it didn't have anything to do with his skin color, as he was attacked by white police man and Duran turned out to be a Caucasian man with a family and a job. All of that was taken away from him the moment the cops dragged him into the hospital claiming he wasn't right in the head and the cops found him like that. In 2014 Donovan Duran, a Colorado MMA fighter, was beat and dragged to the

Police shouldn’t be able to get away with police brutality because innocent civilians are getting shot and dying from police brutality. Some people might even say that police brutality is more likely to happen against African-Americans. Dilascio also states, “When an alleged incident of police brutality comes to light, it generally falls into one of two categories...the incident is isolated, and stems from a single decision that is later called into question (such as when an officer shoots a suspect that is later discovered to be unarmed)”(Dilascio). This quote states that when a officer shoot an innocent man or woman that is later recognized to be unarmed is called to question and is later handled in court. Also when the incident is handled in court sometimes the incident isn’t handled correctly. According to the black lives matter movement, “The Black Lives Matter movement seeks to highlight police brutality against African Americans and argues that police are more likely to use excessive and even lethal force when confronting black suspects”(Police). This quote is self explanatory, but it explains how police officers are

When faced with a threat human instinct is to kill first instead of to be killed. Police are trained to disable a threat and as a last resort, kill. What does it say about America’s law enforcement when an officers’ victim is a person of colour who is unarmed? A recent and well known case of unjust demise by police is 22-year-old Oscar Grant. A young black man gunned down, whilst handcuffed, by a white police officer. Grant was unarmed and posed no threat to the officer. Similarly, 23-year-old Robert Tolan Jr. was given the same fate by an officer who allegedly received inaccurate information about a stolen vehicle. Like Grant, Tolan happened to be a black man shot by a white police officer while unarmed. No

This is why I do not think these Police Brutality cases involve racism. In the past year, there have been 4 notable cases where an african american man or woman was treated with excessive force by police. Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, and Walter Scott. Sandra Bland was a woman who failed to signal a lane change and ended up dead in a jail cell. Eric Garner was a man who refused to follow directions from police, was suffocated, and had a heart attack in an ambulance to a hospital where he died. Walter Scott was a man who fled from a policemen during a pull-over. All of these cases do involve police brutality but do not necessarily involve racism and could have been involved had the victims followed directions.

On March 5, 2016 Earledreka White, a black 28-year old social worker, was pulled over by a Metro Police officer in Huston, Texas for crossing the double white line. During this incident White was placed in handcuffs and charged with resisting arrest and search, a misdemeanor that carries a potential six-month sentence, and jailed for two days on $1,000 bond. Later on in the case White’s attorney released the surveillance video that shows the arrest with the 911 call playing as it unfolds. While watching the surveillance video I was shocked to see the treatment White was receiving for a traffic stop and the way the metro police officer handled the situation. Before this incident White had no criminal record, but the police officer treated her

A police in our society is supposed to serve as our protector. Their job is to save lives not destroy them, not to racially discriminate, their jobs is to catch the criminals to make us safer. The chances of America seeing how police brutality is towards the African Americans is really low. Some victims are even scared to file a complaint against a police brutality, they ask themselves if the police that was supposed to keep them safe is destroying them what’s the point of filing a complaint. Police brutality against the African Americans is the most serious leads in America that keeps violating the human rights law.

On June 5th In this video of a McKinney Texas police officer Eric Casebolt you first start off with two cops chasing someone we cannot see. One of the boys recording then gives what seems to be pepper spray and the police officer is very nice. Then we pan to the main culprit in this video. He forcefully tells a young African American teen, “I told you to stay”, he screams and pushes his head down. He then proceeds to everyone yelling, “Get you’re a**es down on the ground.” The officer yells and points a stick or something at the kids telling them to get In the grass. He points to these African American females and tell them to get out of here using vulgar language once again. He cuffs to African American boys and the kids beside them in the video are pleading and begging that he stop and saying they were just here for a birthday

My friend did not expect the police to handcuff him outside of his house in front of his neighbors. He did nothing wrong--an hour earlier he had called 911 to report that someone had broken into his shed and stolen a lawn mower. Yet when the police finally showed up to investigate, they immediately suspected the perpetrator was him. This grievous act was made very obviously due to the fact that my friend is an African American male. The scene of people of color being subjected to bias from law enforcement is unfortunately very common. There are many books and movies that expose this prejudice, including the book Just Mercy. Brian Stevenson, the author, asserts in his book Just Mercy that the race of an individual has the most impact on how he/she is treated within the criminal justice system.

Police brutality seems to be everywhere we look from the news to social media this also makes it difficult for minorities to trust the police. The latest story on police is brutality is about Keeven Robinson. Keeven was arrested by undercover police and died of asphyxia caused by the excessive force used during his arrest. This brutal arrest took place in Jefferson Parish Louisiana. The apprehension occured Thursday, May 10, 2018. Keeven was being investigated for narcotics by undercover police and was seen at a local gas station. As Keeven noticed he was spotted he took off in his vehicle crashing two vehicles before he got off on foot and was fatally arrested in the backyard of someone's home. The common question that arises is whether or

I agree with most of the comments above that this particular incident of force is based on a factor of racism. The facts of the incident reveal that the officer in the video has been involved in investigations and previous lawsuits. In a 2013 case, the officer was claimed to recklessly target African-Americans students that were affiliated with gangs and criminal activities. Another case in 2007, a deputy accused the officer in the video with using an excessive amount of force in investigating a noise. Even though the jury favored with the officer in the 2007 case, these previous accusations causes me to believe that the there was a racist intent behind the officer’s use of force when it came to the arrest. However, I also agree with the Julie’s

There is this racist assumption common amongst the population that these men “deserve” this brutality because they are a suspect in a case or they “putting the officer in danger”, but an officer’s job is to protect the people not put them in harms way. Nowhere in his job description does it say to aim a gun to an unarmed assumed suspect and be a threat to their life.

Killing people is not good, especially if it has to do with someone’s color. African American males should not have to worry about law enforcement hurting them or picking with them. Black men have always had a rocky relationship with the police there’s always been some tension for the last 100 plus years. Not every black male has an encounter with a police officer that has been fatal, but in 2015 The Guardian did a study that shows black men were nine times more likely to be killed by police officers than other