Police Brutality Report

Police brutality is a very widespread topic through all religions, all kinds of different cultures and all races. People believe that police officers use their powers and their badge to hold them to a higher standard then the average civilian. I belief that its all up to interpretation and the many experiences we go through that define a bad cop from a good one. If we judge all police officers from one bad cop how do we expect to change? Its a never ending cycle that has to change and heres some examples on how we can do so.

Although I should know by now, I cannot help but think that there has been an overwhelming amount of police brutality in recent years. Police brutality can be defined as, when a police officer uses more force than necessary. This issue has spread throughout the United States of America, and is putting the lives of our citizens in great danger. Police brutality is not only physical, but it can also be verbal attacks; and, in most cases, it is caused by false arrest and racial profiling due to police corruption. Police brutality has been and continues to be a major concern in society and it is used very loosely to any and all forms of police misconduct. Whereas, in reality, excessive force of police misconduct is what defines police brutality. The jobs of a police officer are too calmly resolve public disturbance and disputes. Police officers are supposed to protect citizens; instead they are hurting and using excessive force. It is not right and it is unjust for a police officer to hurt a citizen due to an assumption without any actual proof of criminal activity.

Police brutality is one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States and it occurs in every community. The job of a police officer is to maintain public order, prevent, and detect crime. They are engaged in a dangerous and stressful occupation that can involve violent situations that must be controlled. In many of these confrontations with the public it may become necessary for the police to administer force to take control of a situation. Sometimes this force takes the form of hand to hand combat with a suspect who resists being arrested. Not all police officers in communities are good cops. At least once a year the news is covering a story about a person

Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians ("What Is Police Brutality?"). Recently, there have been a surplus of incidents involving police brutality. Cases like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice are examples of police brutality. All three of these victims ended up dead at the hands of police. Statistics show that, just this year alone, 1,013 Americans have been killed by cops (Cop Crisis). Social media has made it remarkably easy for cases like these to gain and raise awareness. Many hashtags and movements have begun because of the new-found awareness about police brutality. The public is finally recognizing it as a problem and movements are trying to remedy the system. Unfortunately, police brutality is not easy to fix. Some suggest we need to institute several laws, others think we need to get to the root of the problem and revamp the way police officers are trained.

Police brutality is a growing problem all around the world. Although we may only hear of certain similar situations that go on in the United States, Police brutality is happening all around the world. This problem seems to have been around for a while now. Police brutality has been defined as, “the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. Police Officers.” There are many forms of Police Brutality, such as harassment (false arrest), intimidation, and verbal abuse. Although Police Officers do have to use force to carry out necessary duties, “force can be used only in a manner that meets standards of reasonableness.” In October 15, 1966, a group of African Americans came together to form a group named the Black Panther Party to stop this cruel abuse of power (BBP Britannica).

Michael Brown was stopped for jaywalking which does not warrant death. Many eyewitnesses claim that Wilson reversed back toward Brown in rage, his tires screeching, and threw open his door. Wilson tried to get a hold of Brown but he managed to get out of his grip and started running down the street, away from Wilson. Wilson pulled out his gun and shot at Brown. One of

Over the past several years, and especially now in the past two years, innocent black men are being killed every day by police officers. More often than not, see news headlines of more and more black lives being taken. Innocent lives being taken by officers who serve little to no justice. Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile are only just a few names on the long and growing list of the black victims of police brutality. Police officers should be held more accountable in cases against police brutality so the list of innocent black lives doesn’t keep growing.

The incident happened August 9th, 2014. Wilson stopped Brown due to him matching a robbery suspect description. At some point during the detainment a struggle ensued, which resulted in Brown attempting to grab Wilson’s firearm. Wilson then fired one or two rounds through the door striking Brown. Officer Wilson then gave pursuit on foot and ordered Brown to stop. Brown attempted to charge Wilson at which time Wilson fired multiple shots fatally wounding Brown. Criminal investigation deemed that Wilson’s actions were in self-defense. Also noted Brown did assault Wilson, and DNA evidence showed Brown grabbed Wilson’s weapon. An incident as such can bring lawsuits against the officer or officers

The topic of police brutality is very popular in the media today. According to CNN’s Eliott C. McLaughlin, “It feels like every week, a name is added to the list: another man, often black and unarmed, has died at the hands of police.” The Huffington Post even has a whole section of its website dedicated to police brutality. It includes a listing of all the recent events of police brutality, violence

There has always been a common assumption from the police and society that minorities, primarily African Americans, are associated with criminal activity, in turn causing police brutality today. When the news report shows a police officer hitting a black man who was suspected of a crime, there are many people quick to point out police officers as racists. Usually, the police officers would say something along the lines of, “He attacked first and would not comply,” or “I thought he had a gun.” Now in some scenarios, this may be true as the suspect might have tried to fight back but most of the time, it is not. Many police officers in these cases try to make up lies to get out being known as a racist. Thankfully, there are many witnesses and

The summer of 2014 in Ferguson M.O. there was a black teenager by the name of Michael Brown. Brown was shot by a white police officer at the end of that summer. When Brown was shot this caused a worldwide debate between a person's race and the policing that is done in America. After the occurrence of this shooting tensions ran high in Ferguson when it comes to race. According to BBC News, from the time that officer Darren Wilson confronted Brown, it only took three minutes from the confrontation to when backup came and found Brown dead. At the time of the shooting Dorian Johnson who was a friend of Brown’s and was there. Johnson said that everything started at the window of the police car. An unnamed witness said that officer Wilson tried to get out of his car but was pushed back in and punched. Wilson reached for his gun, and Brown grabbed it from him. This is what caused the gun to go off inside the car. She said that when Brown ran off he turned around to taunt Wilson when he was told to freeze. Brown then started to run at full speed toward Wilson, and that was when he was shot dead. The unnamed witness’s story matches the one that officer Wilson gave in front of the St. Louis grand

Officer Wilson shot Brown and did not get prosecuted by the law. The author Jake Halpern describes how everything happened due to all of the people who saw this and all said the same thing. There were actually many people who saw it all some tried to get in and to help brown, but the officers would not let anyone get near that crime scene. The point of view from different citizens were all similar not any of them like what they saw. “I was bottled up, it was too hot to be in a situation like this.” What officer Wilson meant by this is that he was already dealing with so much that exact day and this chase was not meant to happen all a regular officer wanted to do was to arrest the victim for stealing. Officer Wilson was having a difficulty trying to arrest brown as the chase begun all he could do was to shoot

The definition of brutality is subjective. Merriam-Webster defines police brutality as using “excessive force (Merriam-Webster 2017).” However, the word excessive is also a subjective adjective that has not been clearly defined by the law yet in the context of law enforcement. Police brutality does not define what types of brutality it refers to, which highlights another fallacy of the term police brutality. The definition of brutality alone could range from verbal harassment to wrongful death. This is not only problematic legally, but also statistically. If one cannot define what police brutality exactly is in plain language, it cannot be quantified into a statistic. As a result, the word police brutality needs to be defined more specifically in more empirical

Most people in the United States understand that there are occurrences of police brutality, although the episodes of such brutality is minute in comparison to what is perceived to be the case by the general population. Police brutality is a perception of excessive force, though depending on the situation, that very force may in fact be the use of proper force. When it comes to Americans receiving their knowledge of current event, they usually refer to the media, in which a major topic today is police brutality.

What many people also don’t know is all of this happened after Wilson had already been attacked by Brown when he was still in his patrol car. Initially, Wilson had spoken to Brown and Johnson, who was with him, because they were walking down the middle of the street. At the time Wilson intended to question them in regards to a convenience store theft Wilson from earlier that same day. Video proved that Brown was perpetrator of that theft. He had just asked them to move over onto the sidewalk, and Brown made vulgar, non-compliant remarks to the officer and walked up to the police vehicle. Brown proceeded to strike Wilson in the face and go for his gun. They struggled for the gun, and Brown was shot in the hand. This is the only point where Brown was running away from Wilson. Wilson exited the vehicle, gun in hand but pointing down at the ground, and issued the command to stop. At that point Brown turned and came towards Wilson. Wilson issued a command to stop and get on the ground, to which Brown did not comply. Instead he continued his advance and Wilson opened