Police Officer Shootings

Each year law enforcement officers throughout the county are involved in shootings, some of them fatal. Frequently the shootings are reported by the media, which exploits the feelings of the victim while ignoring the effect of the shooting on the police officer. It is “estimated that approximately 87 percent of all emergency service personnel will experience a critical incident at least once in their career, which include officer-involved shootings” (Kureczka, 2002, p. 18). Officer-involved shootings have a profound effect on not only the officer involved but also their spouses, families, and the departments they serve. Law enforcement officers that are involved in officer-involved shootings need support and assistance such as critical incident stress debriefing and sometimes long-term trauma recover therapy in order to cope and live successful lives beyond the critical incident of the shooting.

Usually, people who commit homicide are convicted and sentenced to many years of incarceration but almost all police that has murdered are never found guilty. For example, Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer, killed Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, after shooting at least 10 rounds at him. Just imagine losing your child just two days before their first day of college over cigarillos. Then a mere three months later Wilson was found not guilty even with the amount of compelling evidence against him proving that police have always, subjected minorities to apparently discriminatory treatment and have physically abused minorities while using racial epithets(Collins, Cynthia 2). Even though Michael deserved some punishment Wilson had no right to take it to the extreme and shoot a

Officers are just protecting themselves. Tamir Rice a twelve-year-old black boy was shot and killed. Tamir rice of ohio was carrying a toy gun and aimed it at police. He was then shot by the officer(Ochs p3). If a person no matter what age is going to raise a gun at a cop the the cop is going to react by drawing his weapon.John Crawford of ohio was also shot by police. John walked into walmart carrying an air rifle police arrived and told him to put it down he did not so he was shot (Ochs ). If a person is carrying around a gun the police are not going to mess around they are going to take care of the threat. 38-year-old Richard Ramirez was gunned down by police. He was sitting in his car and reached down at his waistband the officer then

Recently police have come under fire for the deaths of many unarmed African American males. This has broken the trust between civilians and police and torn our country apart. People are frustrated about the killings of unarmed citizens and how it seems every officer can get away with killing an unarmed suspect. Back in 1994 a law was passed that required the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to record date on police involved shooting and deaths by police officers. Except where are the numbers that would show there is an increase in unarmed African American deaths from police officers?

Cops try getting away with it, try to hide evidence, don’t tell the whole story just to protect themselves and make us think about how well the system is and if it really is just. You can forget about justice when police, government agents, who are supposed to protect us “assault, kill, harass, and discriminate” the community. Their actions frighten us which make us feel antithetical to what we are supposed to feel when a police officer is around. That is why in some cases where the victim was at gunpoint, they were afraid to act or make a sudden move thinking they were going to be shot. Hearing the real life stories about these types of cases fill us with fear and uncertainty to trust a police officer.

There are a lot of incidents that happen between police, and criminals. Always a mix up, confusion, miscommunication, and sadly, police brutality, but police always get the benefit of the doubt because of lack of evidence. A incident happened way back in around 2009, it was actually on January 1st. A twenty-two year old young man named Oscar Grant was shot at Fruitvale Station, by an officer that “thought” he was using a taser, but actually used a gun. If that officer would have had a body camera on, he would’ve been more aware of what he was doing, and he would have been caught sooner because they would have been able to see, and tell that Grant wasn’t being defiant.

On Tuesday, the 27th of September 2016, Alfred Okwera Olango was fatally shot in El Cajon, California after his sister made a 911 call saying he was mentally ill and acting erratically. When police showed up to the scene, Olengo refused many of their commands and according to police “rapidly drew an object from his front pants pocket, placed both hands together and extended them rapidly toward the officer, taking up what appeared to be a shooting stance”. This, like many other recent police shootings of African Americans, led to large protests. On Tuesday and then again on Wednesday the El Cajon streets near the site of the shooting were filled with hundreds of mostly peaceful protesters carrying posters and chanting. Officers fully suited

The best thing that Christians could do in the wake of the recent Dallas cop shootings is to respond with silence and prayer, according to New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas.

Was the suspect fleeing the scene? As a result, impeding justification for the death of the suspect if the shooting was a wrong-doing. It is these handful of incidents that leave civilians doubtful of how officers handle contentious situations. I believe police officers should be required to be equipped with body-worn cameras as a solution to this issue.

I hope I did not offend you by my post, I can't really tell from your response. I just want to be clear; the hostility I was referring to is civilians attacking the people that are supposed to be protecting us (officers). I try not to go into too much detail with my post for on-line classes because words can be misconstrued. Also, depending on personal experiences, I did not want to offend anyone in the class that may feel like a victim of police brutality/misconduct or shootings. My husband was a police officer and he is also in the military, so I understand. I also agree officers are sensationalized in the news and social media because they are held to a higher standard. My comment about working together should our country come under attack

Police shootings of young Black males that ultimately result in their death have become an all-too-common occurrence in this country. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Gardner have highlighted police relations with this population. Before viable solutions can be established, a number of areas need to be addressed that relate to the historical context in which police relations with this group exist that impact current relations between the police and young Black males, why their lives are seemingly given less value by society than those of their White counterparts, the role that spirituality and religiosity play that may help to make connections between them and the police, and the benefit of the Black church in fostering amicable police relations with young Black males.

The reason police brutality needs heavy investigation is to address the use excessive force by the police and when it’s necessary for them to use force. They can use force if they feel their lives are in danger and when criminals refuse to drop their weapons. The current rule of when officers can use force technically makes it easy for an officer to use excessive force and justify it by saying they felt threatened by the other person. This is shown in South Carolina in the case where Michael Slager the police officer shot Walter Scott and lied about it. Slager made it seem like Scott had threatened him with a gun. However; a video of the incident showed Walter Scott’s innocence and Slager was eventually charged with murder but, if the video

Present day America: Ferguson, Missouri; establishments are being burned, “riots” are encompassing all surrounding areas, and the media is ablaze with “Black lives matter too” propaganda. All of the following was a butterfly effect of one situation: A white cop had “murdered” a black boy. “To support the autopsy said a microscopic exam found foreign matter, consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm, on the tissue of Brown’s thumb wound” (Barajas, “What”). Does this not prove that officer, Darren Wilson, was in fact wrestling with the assailant at one point in the occurrence? Given our justice system, Darren Wilson, was found acquitted of the crime of manslaughter, although, many believe that this is an act of the government protecting another one of its employees. Could this crisis have been adverted if all police departments wore cameras while on the job? Most likely, although that was not available or policy given this incident. There is absolutely no reason for the

Police shootings of young black males that ultimately result in their death have become an all-too-common occurrence in this country. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Gardner have highlighted police relations with this population. Before viable solutions can be established, a number of areas need to be addressed that relate to the historical context in which police relations with this group exist that impact current relations between the police and young black males. Why their lives are seemingly given less value by society than those of their white counterparts. The role that spirituality and religiosity play that may help to make connections between them and the police, and the benefit of the black church in fostering amicable police relations with young black males.

The Gubernatorial debate included multiple different topics and plans to solve them. One of the topics that paralleled with one of our topics in class was the topic of police shootings. Many of our current event topics have been about the recent race crimes in Charlotte and how we stop these crimes from happening. In the debate, both candidates planned to educate the police officers and try to desensitize them from the fear of our new black vs police war. Another one of their topics that tied in with ours was their discussion on education and their plans to equalize the schools so there was no longer school getting less opportunities than the others based on money. This argument ties in with our civil rights vs civil liberties chapter when