Police Brutality And Racial Profiling

America as a people gloat when it comes to our freedoms we think we have it better than every other country out there but the protectors of our freedom are becoming fear and hated because of the injustices committed by certain officers. Some say life of an officer is hard because they do not know if they will ever see their family again after they drive out of their house in the morning, others might say every officer knows what they were signing up for so they should not be pitied. Police officers face dangers everyday but profiling and racially motivated brutality is not justifiable and officers should be severely punished for committing these crimes.

"I am an educated black man, business owner, father, husband, I apologize I look like a thug." This is a quote from one of the signs held up at a protest for Michael Brown. Michael Brown was shot by a police officer named Darren Wilson. Brown was shot about six times after Wilson targeted him for walking in the street with a friend. Police brutality and violence on black people has become prominent and indicates racism, negative stereotyping, and white supremacy in full effect with the police. Michael Brown is one of many crimes done be the real criminals in uniform.

America as a people revel when it comes to our freedoms we think we experience it better than other countries out there, but the defenders of our freedom are becoming frightened and disliked because of the intolerance performed by specific policemen. United States policemen play an important role in our citizens lives. Their job is to protect and serve from all hurt, harm, and danger. Lately in the twenty-first century we have been experiencing pain and hatred from our police departments. Seemingly our police department look only to make arrest against those of color. That is where the role of police brutality and racism comes in. Police brutality has become a repetitive topic rolling off our citizens tongue and being used in action by our police departments. Think to yourself and ask yourself what is the purpose of police brutality? Does racism cause police brutality?

Police Brutality is defined as the use of excessive force by police officers when they encounter civilians. Police officers are defined as people who are responsible for the prevention of crime. Brutality is defined as, “savage, physical violence.” Police brutality has been alive and well for many years, but a majority of the cases had been recently. Dating back to the times of the Civil Rights Movement and even before, minorities have been treated with little to know respect by police officers. Racial Profiling is defined as, the act of suspecting or targeting a race based on a preconceived idea or notion. Police brutality and racial profiling are more prevalent among minorities than non-minorities because of stereotypes they have place on minorities.

These heartbreaking stories understandably angered the African American communities, bringing them to rally for equality under the law and rightfully assert that Black Lives Matter. Despite the endless, passionate contest for feeling truly protected by cops, there has been little, if any, progress in this movement. Out of frustration and pain, violence has become the next step in this revolution against racism. Consisting of verbal and physical abuse as well as outright disobedience and disrespect displayed toward officers, citizens across America are simply fueling the fire. While only further developing the animosity between the people and the police, violence will do far more harm than

During the last few years, there has been a lot of talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people. But in the 21st century, it is difficult to fathom the fact that America is still divided when it comes to racial issues. Many African-American men have been brutally murdered by the police and this has sparked anger and rage in the black community towards police officers that put their lives down every day to protect and serve their communities. This tension between the black community and police officers needs to be demolished in order for communities to truly become unified and concerted. It

Racism is the number one factor that will never depart in this world. Racism begun in the early 1600s and ended in the 1863 when the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment were added to the constitution immediately after the civil war. African-American went through a lot to gain freedom. The author Henry lousis gates stated that, “according to the slave trade database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the new world. 10.7 million Survived the dreaded middle passage”. Even though in a legal point of view racism has been demolish, but many individuals can’t move on from there ignorance. Racism is not only define as if its hate from the color of someone’s skin

Racial profiling is subjecting citizens to scrutiny based on racial or ethnic factors rather than reasonable or justifiable suspicion (Chan 2011). Other than causing feelings of alienation and targeting racial profiling creates inequality and divides people of different races and ethnicities. Police brutality is the form of police misconduct which involves undo violence by police officers. There are many types of police brutality causing dangerous outcomes, health implications and negative perceptions. These negative perceptions by people of color are causing community responses and added police accountability. While people say racial profiling is necessary because certain people are more likely to commit certain crimes, it takes freedom away from members of a community making it possible for police officers to target minorities everywhere and anywhere.

Lastly, but certainly not least, one global issue that seems to be rising daily is racial profiling. “Studies have been able to show widespread use of racial profiling amongst law enforcements, and other authoritative personal.” “Nearly every person of color has a personal story of a time where they have been racially singled out by police, business owners, security guards etc.” “Racial profiling has become very hazardous. many racial profiling victims walk away with a ticket, but way too often the outcome of being racially profiled is death.” Comparatively, back to the Trayvon Martin case, the officer said he felt “threatened” by 19 year-old Trayvon Martin, though when Trayvon was shot, he had been carrying a soda, and a bag of skittles. If not for the color of his skin, Trayvon Martin might still be here today, but I suppose “he deserved it” for being a black kid, walking through a “white neighborhood.” We can’t let Martin Luther King Jr's dreams go to waste .“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” “Nelson, David Erik, ed. Racial Profiling. N.p.: Greenhaven, 2009. Print. Opposing Viewpoints Ser.”

First and foremost, in cases of using deadly force, a person is likely to have lost their life, which is the greatest loss when concerning police brutality. On a larger scale, the impact affects a large portion of citizens. With so many incidents of police shooting unarmed African Americans, the trust of police officers is being lost among people. Many African Americans are turning from trusting these protectors into fear of them, with the attitude that they could be the next victim of this type of brutality. Recently this has been the most covered issue pertaining to law enforcement and many believe this to be an issue based in racism. Marc Mauer (2006) quotes law professor Randall Kennedy, “’the most lethal danger facing African Americans in their day-to-day lives is not white, racist officials of the state’” (p. 158). With all the news coverage many people may think that that is the case, but in reality these incidents are not as prominent as other issues that the African American community faces. But the issue of brutality does not just affect African Americans, there are many other cases of police wrongdoing that does not receive as much attention, whether it is miss use of nonlethal force like pepper spraying of protesters on a college campus or just miss use of soft or hard hands. Impacts of brutality are much larger than the victim; in recent months both riots and civil protests against police

When we were younger, we all wanted to be someone special, someone heroic and usually at the age of five through nine a heroic person to you would be a ballerina, firefighter, chef, superman, or a police officer; but in today’s world, most of us have grown up. We’ve been through the phase as teenagers, young adults, then finally an adult. We’ve realized that those goals that we once wanted take time and are much harder to reach and those goals don’t always come with good and moral values. Cops today are under the impression that stereotyping and discriminating towards a certain ethnic group (mainly black men) is justifiable in the Baltimore police department. A narcotic detective from Baltimore wrote an article about how being a part of the police department seems like you’re a Hero, but truly makes you oblivious to the pain you cause while you’re so called doing your job.

In the last decade, publicized events of police violence have exploded. The force that was meant to serve and protect has become one of the most criticized groups in society. With more and more visibility of police misconduct in the news, people have taken up ideological arms against these biased actions. After the 2012 murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and acquittal of vigilante George Zimmerman for the crime, #BlackLivesMatter became a call to action to stop the dehumanizing violence perpetrated against blacks. In response to this movement, #AllLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter have been cried out. They claim that Black lives aren’t the only ones that should be preserved, instead we should rally around protecting all lives. People hold entirely different views and interpretations of police misconduct.

What has happened to police officers? Aren’t they supposed to be protecting the people, not killing them or going against them? Racial profiling and police brutality are two major issues in the world today. Body and dash cameras are set up but proper punishment is not afforded to the police officers. We, as the civilians, deserve better from our first responders which in this case are the cops. Due to recent increases in incidents between officers and civilians, the federal government needs to make the laws on police brutality less tolerant.

The topic that has my interest would be police shooting and how much it has gotten worse over the years. Thiers a lot of questions asked when it comes to police shootings/police brutality. The first thing that the media always brings up is did the person deserve to be shot or was the person shooting at the police, in which case two valid questions but the fact the cops shoot to kill it appears in many police shooting they will usually shoot at the body of the person, they aren’t likely to shoot at your legs or a place that won’t automatically cause death. The reason this is a concern is because I believe the African American community is targeted more than any other ethnic group in America, they are more searched than any other ethnic group it causes fear with the community and this also makes the police job harder, because now they will be more trigger happy to shoot someone in a slight move they make. A big media case from last year was shown an African American man helping his patience that left his care, while this was going on the man was laying down with his hands up telling the cops I am just trying to help my patience within 2 minutes the policeman shoots at the unarmed man injuring him, but lucky the man survived. The strange part of this shooting was that the police was 20 foot from the man that they shot, which also makes you wonder how is it possible that a man can have his arm raised clearly a video of the incident showing the man with his hands up still was

All throughout American history we have seen undeniable blatant racism. Racism was very widespread and accepted as a society. In the south Jim Crow Laws were set in place to keep everything “separate but equal”, though that wasn’t the case and African Americans were still discriminated and always given the shorter end of the stick. During the Civil Rights Era, many African- Americans came together in peaceful protests in the hopes of earning equal rights like white Americans had. Unfortunately things sometimes got out of hand, some people wanted to take more drastic measures, causing unwanted violence. These protests resulted in many African Americans being arrested and sent to jail. Often police brutality was a factor, many were beaten, punched, and kicked. There were a lot that were violent and biased in the past resulting in the deaths of many African-Americans and repeated documented injustice. Not all were like this many saw the prejudice and were doing their best to use their power for good. Despite of the past, huge advances have been made culturally over the last few decades. As a society we’ve come to accept very progressive views that don’t tolerate any of that anymore; racism is very looked down upon and not a “norm” anymore. There’s only so much time a country can be stuck in the ways of the past. Police bias and brutality was very existent and prevalent throughout history against minorities, but it is not an issue anymore today. The common narrative in the