Research Paper On Police Brutality

There are an abundance of reasons why the United States judicial system is corrupt. Firstly, too many unlawful shootings have occurred and still currently happen. Police officers are not supposed to shoot to kill. They specifically get trained to shoot the accused somewhere, if necessary, that will not kill them. Usually the arm, shoulder, leg, or foot will do. Why is it that an 18 year old boy, Michael Brown, was left in the street for more than four hours after he was shot and killed by police (Engler 1)? Had nobody seen him lying, bleeding out in the middle of the road? Did the cops just leave the scene? Second is Eric Garner, a father of six beautiful children. He sold loose cigarettes to citizens on the streets in front of a Staten Island corner store (Engler 1). Somehow police found out, confronted him, and he ended up dead. While being detained, Garner repeated numerous times that he could not breathe and was ignored. The New York police still kept him in a deadly chokehold, causing his horrible death. To make matters worse, the grand jury decided that there would be no trial of the cop who killed Eric Garner because they felt as if he was not at fault (Engler 1). Trayvon Martin is next; he was an

Police officers have been killing and hurting people and getting away with it. In Baton Rouge, a police officer shot a man who “had a gun”. The mad had already been tased and wasn’t a threat but was shot anyway because the officer said he “attempted to reach for the gun”. We don’t know for sure what happened because we weren’t there. We can’t tell what really happened so there’s another man dead because of what a police officer claims happened.

The power of authority allowed police officers to use brutality on many people, which turned out to be a problem to many Americans. Why do officer’s do this? It is still an unanswered question. The police in general have a bad scheme against the non-police officers and are more suspicious of minorities assuming that they are troublemakers and deserve to be brutally hurt than to be brought to justice. In addition, the United States court systems are backing up the police officers and showing brilliant favoritism against people, which in other words, gives harsh treatment and long presentment to the minorities. Their counterpart predominant civilians in this country are getting lenient sentencing and even most of the times are given opportunities to recoup their wrong doing activities. To fix this type of negative policing, United States needs to call for epidemic law revisions and spend trillions of dollars to reform policing in order to rebuild the trust between law enforcement and the minority community.

There used to be a time when you heard the word police and all you thought about was protection, safety, and honor. Now a days when you heard the word police, it is associated with brutality, racism, and unfair punishments. People are more afraid to get pulled over by the police in during a routine traffic stop than being pulled over after committing crimes. We have heard hundreds of cases where young Americans, mainly young African American males, that are gunned down by police officers. The worst part of this scenario is not the fact that someone innocent lost their life, but that the person responsible does not have to pay for these crimes. The most that we have seen a police officer get is paid time off and sometimes they do not get this “punishment”. That is crazy seeing that if someone else shot and killed someone they would have to serve the maximum sentence available for that crime. These brutal acts can be dated back as fair as to the Civil Rights movement and they are only getting worse over time. As I stated before, police brutality has been a problem in the United States for a long time and the punishments for the officers have yet to be fair. There are, however, many things that can be done in society to prevent police brutality from becoming normalized. Since police brutality has been a growing

There's usually no witnesses around to speak of what happened. When you sit and think about it everyone would take the policemen’s word over the suspect. Every governor, mayor, police chief or an ordinary citizen who wants to deal seriously with police brutality has to look at it in a broad context. Police violence is not a result of poor training, inadequate leadership or “bad apples” among cops. On the contrary, police violence is one of the by products of crime, not a separate misunderstanding, this crucial point amounts to misunderstanding of the function and behavior of the

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 things that needs to change, because police brutality is a very serious problem as well as a crime. Justice is needed. People are getting hurt by the police who are misusing their power and involving them into situations they shouldn’t be in. When you hear a cop shot somebody because they didn’t follow their instructions. No charges or nothing would be on the cop. They will go home like nothing happened. All life matters, cops shouldn’t be acting this way because they are bringing shame to our country. I feel like there’s more issues with cops rather than criminals. Experience shows that hardened as well as clever criminals refuse to cooperate with the investigations and it is only the fear and pain of physical brutality that unlocks these people. Nevertheless, police unfortunately often fails to recognize the distinction between this type of criminals and other accused persons. Moreover, they use physical brutality as an easier option compared to clever and intelligent questioning and investigation. Thus the police brutality more often than not is misplaced and

As a society, we have come to fear the police officers who we have faithfully relied on to protect us as citizens. The men and women who are sworn under a police oath are far too often walk the line between good and evil. Within the United States we often hear of police brutality cases that are gone unpunished. Or when an officer acts without any ethical judgement and is held without responsibility. The police officers who have been hired to serve us have turned into a domestic military, with the arsenal of our army and without any rules to abide.

“This is not about police bashing. I have family who are members of major police forces throughout America, and I pray they come home safe everyday. And Saturday night America was reminded how dangerous law-enforcement's job is. Memphis Police Officer Sean Bolton, 33, was shot and killed after making a traffic stop, and police have arrested the alleged killer. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 51 law enforcement officers were killed in 2014 in the line of duty -- 89% more than the 27 officers killed in 2013). I have witnessed since my childhood what those police men and women endure each and everyday and overall I still believe they're our first line of defense when something goes awry.

police force hardly ever get convicted for their fatal crimes. For example, in South Carolina, officers have shot at civilians 210 times in the last five years without a single police officer being convicted. This trend appears in most states in the U.S., where no or hardly any police officers get tried for their crimes. This means that police have the leverage to outweigh the law that regular citizens abide by.

Police officers need to be held accountable for everything they do good or bad. We must take advantage of any opportunity we can to make our communities a better place.

    The nature of police work can be one of stress and long, hard working hours in which police officers deal with many types of situations that endanger themselves and their fellow officers. The fact that many people do not trust, appreciate, or support the police department is a terrible result of the public being taught to hate them. They do not like the police presence and the authority that the police have over them. Once a police officer shoots a suspect who more than likely deserved it due to the intent of harming or killing a civilian or a fellow officer, the public outcry is that the police are killers and that they will shoot anyone they come into contact with. Although we hear about

“I am the law” (Copping Out, 57). Just because one is given power, does not mean they are powerful. The badge and gun mean nothing but line or duty. The duty or officers is to serve and protect, right? The serving part is down, but he “protect” part could use a little work. The police corruption rate has risen in the past few years, due to carelessness and dishonesty. There have been reasons behind the problem, such as racism, immigration, and simply abuse of authority among officers. There have been many reports of this type of misconduct toward innocent people, for years. Power can only be taken so far, when it comes to balancing what is fair and what is not. Some take advantage of power, for their own benefit. Sometimes the people trusted

The increase in police brutality in this country is frightening. Excessive force on citizens has resulted in murder. Since May 2013, over 2,000 Americans have been killed by cops. Officers are not being held responsible and have been allowed to return to their normal duties while families of the victims have been left without justice. Americans have developed a lack of trust for those who have sworn to serve and protect. This pervasive distrust is grounded in the reality of unjustified violence.

The cases that are mostly seen worldwide with police corruption are due to drugs and drug trafficking. Police officers get involved with the “easy money” and believe the theory of “I will not get caught”; it is miserable and emotional to see the United States law enforcement get caught up in these cases. “In 2012, two corrupt cops joined forces with drug dealers and are now facing jail time; they put dozens of criminal cases in jeopardy. Officers Diaz and Patrick Mara admitted to ripping off drug dealers of their methamphetamine during traffic stops. This was the beginning to police corruption in Kern County.”(Richard Winton) The two police officers were corrupt since a while back. “They both pleaded guilty to their charge and got punished for it. Officer Diaz would not fully report the drugs they would find and instead would keep more than half. Officer Mara was caught selling methamphetamine to other individuals.” (Diaz and Mara admitted) Other cases they were involved in are now put under jeopardy and could possibly be missed charged. Cops should not allow such horrific thing to occur. If they know about a corrupt cop they should immediately report it. People and younger