Reflection Paper On Police Brutality

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

2. When the police kill unarmed citizens, the officer is often not charged but cities across the nation pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle these cases with the families of the victims. Why do cities consistently pay this money? What does the Bill of Rights have to say about police brutality? https://www.thenation.com/article/chicago-has-spent-half-a-billion-dollars-on-police-brutality-cases-and-its-impoverishing-the-victims-communities/

no one is trying to stop what is going on because it is an irrelevant situation that

This past year, there have been 102 cases among just black people revolting around the brutality, not to mention the other 120 cases including the Caucasians, Asians, and Hispanics; that’s 222 cases this year. I just chose 3 of the many to focus on, “Sandra Bland, 28, was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, which the deputy quickly escalated by removing Sandra from the vehicle and physically restraining her. She would later die in a jail cell under dubious circumstances; Trooper Brian Encina was charged with perjury for lying about the events leading up to Sandra’s arrest “(mappingpolice). The only charge the officer received was for falsifying information leading up to an innocent woman’s death. Her death has still yet to be explained, which is hard to believe since the death occurred and a highly secured place, a jail cell. As many cameras as there are and as many people there are in jail, I find it impossible for anyone to believe her death was not due to police brutality, and that justice has gone unserved once

Police brutality is one of America’s most dangerous things as of right now as of racism. Today, we deal with police brutality more than anything. I thought police were supposed to help but clearly, we were all wrong. Don’t get me wrong, not all police officers are terrible and “pigs” but lately, most of them have been terrible. All they seem to be doing lately is abusing their powers and taking advantage of us. Charts show that police brutality has and will continue rising. When you look at the news, you can see most of the time the news is about police brutality. When you get on Facebook every night, you can see videos of police brutality. How pathetic can some police officers be?

Recently there have been many conflict emotions when it come the topic about police brutality. Police brutality is where men or women from the police force use an excessive amount of force or abuse towards people in the community. Whether it was done with for the right reasons of wrong reasons, many agree that the amount of police brutality in our country in this past few years have risen where citizens either fear or are angered at the police. Some on the other hand could say that it is not all of the cops fault. It takes two to tango, so the other person involved must have had an impact on why the outcome was so brutal. But people also must realize accidents do happen. This is an issue that has a lot of controversy and not a lot of attention

Over the last few years police brutality has become one of the major issues and topics in todays society. What is police brutality? Police brutality is any type of event where a police officer has to use excessive and unnecessary force on someone. Police officers may use excessive force in order to get a handle on a situation, but in some casing it can escalate the situation for the worst. Police officers do not use just their hands when conducting harm to a person. Police officers may use any weapons that they might have on them such as baton, tasers, buckstop to their gun, and even going to the point of arresting someone just because they may feel they have the power to do so. Within the news and stories that may be told it seems like police

In recent times, the police have been exhibiting an increase in brutality and racial profiling towards minorities. The police are constantly resorting to violence and racially profiling the African American and the Mexican community. Cops are being driven racially to arrest and many times even murder our own people. Even though the police are always abusing their power, the media still finds a way to make the police look bad.

There are also methods of controlling police brutality through the media. First is establishing an investigation board of people who oversee complaints and cases of police abuse. All proven and legitimate complaints should be made public through television or print news, so that the community is aware of which officers have a history of brutality. This makes the community feel safer and more knowledgeable about their officers, as well as making sure no officer is able to hide the things they have done. In addition to a governmental investigation board, there should be a different civilian review board made up of people around the state who collect data from the various cities within their state so that they can monitor trends of abuse and brutality.

Criminal justice and police brutality, are very important current event topics. The actions of police are finally starting to come into notice. Police are rapidly starting to abuse their rights and authorities by killing, accusing, and wrong doing the citizens in America. Finally people are starting to speak up and take action on what the police are doing, and the law is also starting to do something about it. For years police could do pretty much whatever they wanted to, to citizens and were able to get away with it, but now people are actually starting to speak up. Recent situations starting from 2012 up until now, mainly had to do with a police killing an innocent citizen. It is clear to see that people are not dealing with this anymore

Within the recent years in law enforcement, police brutality has become a big problem within the United States. Granted, police brutality has been around for many years, but it was not as alarming as it has become now. Every day, minorities look over their shoulder and are becoming more scared as they do not want to become the next victim of a police brutality incident. Police brutality is the unwarranted or excessive and often illegal use of force against civilians by U.S. police officers. There are many forms of police brutality, which can include assault and battery, intimidation, harassment, verbal abuse and even murder (Moore 2016 para.1).

I was walking on an open road, when a red chevrolet truck pulls up beside me, the stranger rolls down his window with the creaking of the old mechanism. He spoke, breath filled with the scent of alcohol, many thoughts racing through my mind as I hoped I wouldn't need an escape plan. He asked, raspy voiced “Need a ride?”, hearing the sound of the doors unlock. “No, I’m fine, I was just walking to my boyfriend’s house, he knows I'm one the way, uhm please drive on.” For a moment I thought he might actually drive on, until he unfastened his seat belt. I was already a couple feet from the truck but I

I somehow managed to get behind all the slow drivers. Well, I had had enough, I looked over my shoulder and moved to the right lane to pass the slow drivers. Slowly continuing to increase my speed, way over the speed limit of seventy, I got around the train of slow cars and back into the left lane. I was so annoyed with those drivers I didn’t care to reduce my speed after passing them. Then, I noticed someone behind me was driving super close to me, I didn’t understand why they would be tailing me. I was already going fast enough in the fast lane. Right then, the realization occurred. Red and blue flashing lights appeared in my rear view mirror. My heart sank to my stomach just as fast as the speed I was going. I pulled over, scared to death because I had never been pulled over before. I was trying to hold back my tears because now this was going to delay my drive and get a speeding

Police Brutality has been going on for years now, and I wouldn’t be able to bring up a time that it hasn’t. Over the years, you notice that most police officers have been getting away with killing innocent people and all they get is a slap on the wrist and/or maybe some time off work but no Justice is being served. Police Officers feel like they have the right to do what they want and nothing in this world would stop them, but what they don’t know is that, the people will talk.

This has become a very social problem. Often police brutality cases have become very controversial. Many people feel because of race, gender, or poverty level that they are targeted, yet there are many factors that could explain an increase in police brutality, such as 9/11 and many of our law enforcement was pulled to fill military duties leaving vacancies. Using security guards in positions that once was held by police officers, with higher qualification part of the issue.