The Murder Of Tamir Rice

Now one way to prevent things like this from happening again is to train the young and inexperienced police officers the correct and effective way to judge the use of force. An officer must reasonably believe it is necessary to shoot to kill to defend him or herself or someone else from imminent death. It’s a call made in the blink of an eye, in tense and uncertain circumstances, sometimes limited by distance, distractions or darkness. And it brings to bear all of the officer’s experience, awareness and, perhaps most important, training. The question is how do we do this? How do we prepare our officers for the real world? Half a second. According to experts, that’s how much time an officer has to pull a weapon when confronted with someone perceived as dangerous and about to inflict harm. Studies show that it takes a quarter of a second for an officer to recognize a threat, such as when a person is reaching for a gun, and another quarter-second for that officer to draw his gun. It takes another .06 seconds to pull the trigger. One place that is trying to make a difference and make those

Young black men who are shot by the police are very commonly justified, such as Michael Brown who was shot by police because he went for a cops gun inside a cops car. Slyville Smith was killed because he had a record of various arrests, and refused to put his illegally obtained pistol down when an officer asked him to. Where are the overzealous white cops who are out to take young black men into prisons for no reason? Where are the cops who kill solely because they're racist? Some may argue that cops who are pulling people over for “small” crimes like a broken tail light or slightly speeding is what causes more police brutality, but if a cop pulls a person over for a broken tail light, and they get out of the car with a weapon, is the cop really racist in that scenario? Or is the cop simply protecting himself and others around them? Racism in the police force is virtually nonexistent. I can agree that certain individuals will be racist, but one cop being racist in an entire department of cops does not mean there is an institutionalized issue, and can be cared for much easier; fire the

policies that are currently in place to reduce tension between police officers and the minority groups that they serveLaw enforcement officers and the community have been disconnected. Violence and brutality of any kind, particularly at the hands of the police who here to protect and serve our communities. When Ferguson, Missouri exploded after the police shot an unarmed black teenager, the tension between the community and its protectors was laid bare. Ferguson is not the first and certainly not the last community forced to bridge that chasm. In South Carolina a policeman shot an unarmed black male who was stopped for a seat belt violation. The cop asked the male for ID, who then reached under his seat to retrieve his wallet, but was shot in the leg by the cop before he could take out his ID. When the body cam video was reviewed it shows that the trigger happy cop probably was in fear of his life, however it is also obvious that the cop shouldn’t have felt threaten as the behavior of the black male involved nothing unusual. Many would say if the driver was white the cop would have not reacted the way he did.

There were boycotts of the malls in Baton Rouge, people were marching even holding up traffic. This didn’t only occur in Baton Rouge, but across the U.S. people were standing up for this injustice. Alton Sterling was selling cd in front of a convenience store when two officers approached him, the situation escalated Mr. Sterling was shot several times resulting in his death. Baton Rouge police did not provide much information about what escalated the incident between the officers and Sterling or what prompted an officer to fire his weapon. A witness, however, described police as “aggressive” and said Sterling was armed but was not holding his gun or touching his pockets during the incident. The level of force an officer uses varies based on the situation. Because of this variation, guidelines for the use of force are based on many factors, including the officer’s level of training or experience.

When faced with a threat human instinct is to kill first instead of to be killed. Police are trained to disable a threat and as a last resort, kill. What does it say about America’s law enforcement when an officers’ victim is a person of colour who is unarmed? A recent and well known case of unjust demise by police is 22-year-old Oscar Grant. A young black man gunned down, whilst handcuffed, by a white police officer. Grant was unarmed and posed no threat to the officer. Similarly, 23-year-old Robert Tolan Jr. was given the same fate by an officer who allegedly received inaccurate information about a stolen vehicle. Like Grant, Tolan happened to be a black man shot by a white police officer while unarmed. No

Because of this, we would see people with different backgrounds getting shot and arrested for no reason. Whenever we go on social media, we would see that people are living in a state of fear whenever a police is nearby because they don’t know whether something bad will happen to them. In the article, “Something’s wrong when the law-abiding are afraid of police,” it talks about how a black woman was fearing for her life because a police officer pulled her over. The police officer didn’t arrest or shoot her, but instead asked her if she was feeling fine since she was driving under the speed limit. People started commenting that this black woman wouldn’t need to fear the police officer if she obeyed him. Perhaps that’s true for someone else, but African Americans are living a different truth. The problem with this is that no one should fear a police officer because they are suppose to serve and protect the community. When someone is fearing a police officer then we know that something isn’t right. We see that many different ethnic people are getting killed by police officers because they don’t seem to trust them but white people. That is why as a community, we should train police officers to become more comfortable with residents of a different racial background. Police officers are required to make our society safe but it turns out that they are the one that are causing us to live in a state of perturbation. For that reason, we know that our police officers are

In 2015, the COPS budget was cut by nearly $300 million and as a result, new officers received poor training as programs that were considered highly essential to the learning process of rookie cops were exterminated as the programs could no longer receive funding. This has caused poorly trained officers, with lethal weapons, to make poor decisions such as using violence, being neglectful, and directing derogatory terms at minorities and it all comes right back to the fact that cops are only taught how to use a gun properly and arrest a criminal. The physical, mental, and/or communication skills that an officer lacks shouldn’t determine the fate of an individual’s safety or

Police officers are often viewed as oppressors and unjust by the community, when in reality they are just doing their jobs. The job of a police officer is to apprehend criminals and detect crime, and the maintenance of public order and to the extend and complication of this duty police officers often need to make split second decision that is not often view by the public as what we call “self-defense” which is a right we all have as human beings and stated in the Universal Declaration of

The officer was called to assist the woman’s son but instead he was murdered. Police officers use their weapons under any circumstances. Officers need to be trained to deal with any situation, even an emergency of a mentally ill person without having to go as far as shooting someone all because he felt threatened. There needs to be new training exercise provided for the police departments to help reduce the murders and harassment against minorities based on the inability to handle someone.

People don’t see police this way, we all just judge them for thinking a black person was going to pull a gun out and fire at the police officer. I think that this needs to be seen from two angles – one, people see police as racist for shooting colored people, and two, people need to understand that they weren’t in that police officers shoes at the time and situation. Since these police retaliations have increased, some states have made new laws to protect police. Meyerson wrote, “New York State Senate passed a so-called ‘Blue Lives Matter’ bill – a law that makes offenses against police and first responders a hate crime.” (par. 1).

The NYPD are very familiar with situations like shooting unarmed citizens. The shooting of Deborah Danner; mentally ill 66-year-old women shot down due to having a baseball bat in hand. The past shooting of Amadou Diallo; 23-year-old African American man shot 44 times for a misunderstanding of a wallet in his hand. Circumstances such as these cases repeat time and time again. Shooting unarmed is the result of excessive force. Officers are trained to be one step ahead of individuals when handling them. That one step has been abused by uneducated officers and excessively apply force to unnecessary circumstances.

Police officers do have the right to protect themselves. They have families to come home to and be happy. Being a police officer is a life or death career. Officers have every right to protect themselves but at the same time they have no right to just fire their gun at an innocent

Most people believe these cops are doing it because of racisms; the reason we believe this is because like in the case of Eric Garner he died when we was being arrested by Daniel Pantaleo, yes we understand he was doing something he was not supposed to by selling untaxed cigarettes, but the police officer could have arrested him a bit differently as well everyone heard him say “ I can not breath” although no one did anything in the moment for it. Though on the contrary Dylan Roof who is a white American shot 9 people was taken into custody normal like if he only got caught by selling drugs, not for killing 9 innocent people. The worst of this case was Dylan Roof shot 9 African American and when he shot them someone told him to stop but he replied with “No. You’ve raped our women, and are taking over the country… I have to do what I have to do.”This information was viewed from CNN.COM. If this is not classified as racism than I don’t know what is.As well our current candidate for president Donald Trump has been saying many awful things about different people and their

First, "shoot or not shoot" sounds easier said than done. Who wants to use a gun? There may be some bad officers who take advantage of their position or there are also hard working officers with families, risking their life’s every day for us. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) reports that a total of 1,501 law-enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past ten years or an average of one death every 58 hours, or 150 per year. Police officers are thought to protect the community around them, while gaining its trust. Being a police

There are many different perspectives on this situation. The first perspective is that of law enforcement. The police are also afraid for their own lives. In no way am I trying to portray police work as easy or safe, because it is neither. “Police and sheriff’s patrol officers have one of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses of all occupations. They may face physical injury when conflicts with criminals occur, during motor-vehicle pursuits, when exposure to communicable diseases occurs, or through many other high-risk situations” (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Everyone should understand that their goal is to protect us, but naturally their first instinct is to protect themselves. Police are put into potentially dangerous positions on a daily basis; however, this should not create a situation where they are desensitized to treating people with the dignity and respect they deserve as citizens with rights. There is a perception that because the police do not get to know the people in the community, they begin to associate everyone with the people that they are arresting for good reasons, even if they are not criminals. On the other hand there are the groups of people who are most affected. The majority of citizens would agree that the people most affected by this live in lower income neighborhoods where crime and violence are more common. “When researchers controlled for factors such as the level of neighborhood crime, the reported quality of police-citizen