The Issue Of Police Brutality

Over the past decade, police brutality has covered major headlines because officers have acted out in ways that have made citizens question their motives. Things such as unjustified shootings, deadly chokings, and rough treatment have all added to the constant problem of police brutality in the black community. Annoyingly, the police officers responsible for the killings and abuse are not held for long before they are discharged to their normal routines. Since many people believe that the issues of police brutality is based on race, officers should be held accountable for their misconduct. Accountability will permit officers to treat all with equality; therefore using the appropriate amount of force on everyone. Often cops are indicted in less than 1% of killings, but the indictment rate for citizens is 90% which is a major problem. If someone does wrong they should suffer the consequence no matter who they are. As a result of misconduct officers tend be mistrusted by their communities. Deaths in the black community often stems from police officers using excessive force such as assaults, beating and shootings.

Racism in police treatment of minorities has created great disparities in incarceration amongst the races. Blatant cases of racist law enforcement that are covered in the news are a testament to the fact that racism within police departments exists from coast to coast. However, these are only the cases that people find out about; there are countless other cases of police racism and brutality that are not reported.

The mistreatment between the police and the black community is a problem that needs to be fixed. There is a lack of respect when it comes to black people. If the police continues to stereotype African Americans, our country will not get better, it will only get worst. There is mistreatment towards the black community because of the lack of respect that most of these police officers have displayed. Stereotyping is one of the biggest issues we face everyday, and stereotyping black people gives police a mindset that all black people are dangerous, which is false. You hear a lot of white people saying, “Black lives don’t matter, all lives matter,” but what they clearly don’t understand is why black lives matter more than other races. Black people have to go through the worst things such as police brutality, stereotyping, a lack of respect and mistreatment. These are issues that must be stopped and

During these passed three years police brutality, racial tension, and gender issues have been hot topics in the media. On Twitter specifically, articles and hash-tags about police brutality and its victims spread like wildfire. With the running of Hilary Clinton for president and the transition of Caitlyn Jenner, women’s rights and the LGBTA+ community were thrown into the mix of political issues spoken about on the news and presidential debates. Not only are the United States’ citizens talking about race relations and gender issues, but the entire world is discussing these issues. In many places, discrimination and violent acts are committed against gender and racial minorities without punishment. In a world of injustice and chaos, random

Over the years, racism and police brutality have become controversial topics among the society. The main reason for this is because they both go hand and hand. Even though officers are faced with many threatening situations everyday forcing them to make split second decisions, racism and racial profiling are the main cause for police brutality rates and the government should start doing things to stop it because many innocent people are getting hurt and killed because of their race and what law officials assume. Is it ok for a police officer to pull over a black driver for a simple traffic offense and use excessive force while searching them? But doesn't do the same to a white person? Black Americans are overwhelming faced with corruption,

Those of the minority community have been subjected, for many decades, to violence by those in law enforcement in the United States. This type of violence is a direct depiction of police brutality, which often leads to death. Police brutality has been an issue for many years, and it remains a major concern for those of the minority community.

Throughout many year police has become more aggressive towards the people of color. They have excessively used their power to discriminate and brutally beat minorities. Police brutality is a very serious problem that many Americans face today. Police should be held accountable for their misconduct towards people of color and be punished severely.

Justice has become nothing more than a word in American society. Badges allow militarized police officers to brutalize and kill unarmed citizens. Police brutality is not a new issue, it first appeared in 1872 when the Chicago Tribune reported the beating of a civilian by a police officer. Although police brutality has been present for decades, the severity has tremendously increased in the past twenty years. It is critical for citizens to become aware of the growing statistics and casualties of the epidemic. By educating Americans on the problem, it may lead to preventing further incidents.

We need to take legal action as well. The best way to hurt police brutality is by hitting them in the pocket. If the police keep on getting sued for brutality they’ll be forced to deal with the issue. Every incident of police brutality should be reported to both the government and the media.

Police officers should treat us (citizens) with more respect like how they would treat their family. There is a lot off killing, verbal and sexual abuses going on in the United States of America so why would the police add on to that? People should care for things like that because we are losing family members, close friends to this social justice. Sometimes, police officers kill unarmed or mentally ill people especially people of color. Racism is a primary cause for police brutality. Police shoot and kill blacks almost twice as frequently as any other racial group, after gathering all federal crime data. African Americans were rounded up to about four times as likely to die custody or while being arrested than whites. I am a passionate about racism and fighting to end it. Police would never stop if racism keeps going

The main objective of this research is to provide a better understanding of police brutality to students and scholars who are interested in the field. Moreover, this project will be able to provide the public with a better knowledge of the police department and the possibilities of solving such societal issues. Unfortunately, “the incidents of police violence that took place across the United States in 2014 and 2015 generated a national conversation about the nature of America's law enforcement” (Wang 2015, 1). Equality is the key to a better community. In today’s society, the mentality is that the lives of residents in the ghetto are not supposed to be valued. Policing and violence are only symptoms of this larger societal issue. Society needs

Even though we have come so far in society, we are still dealing with racism today. Many police officers in the United States are treating certain races unfair for no apparent reason. This is wrong of the police officers because it is their job to protect everyone and they cannot do their job properly if they are being racist. If we act like bystanders and do not do anything about these police officers then we are going to keep hearing about these officers killing innocent people. We need to overcome this problem by providing better training to police officers and showing them that every life matters.

Human society is not perfect. Any institution people establish has definite flaws. They say to err is human. Thus, people experience problems caused my human mistakes in the government, schools, health care establishments, police etc. Yet, some problems are widely discussed by the public and others are kept in the background. The problem of police brutality is one of the issues people are reluctant to lay upon the tapis. At least, those people who are in charge of police. The main purposes of police officers are to protect and to serve. It is the official slogan written on police stations and police vehicles. Sadly, nowadays this slogan is less popular than the term “police brutality”. The Law Dictionary defines

Many times, no one agency or office will want to take the blame, or be known for discriminating against minorities or low-income families. This causes police departments and prosecutors to not take this fault, and leave it for the other party to absorb so they can defend themselves against any wrong doing. It is seen in statistics that police officers do disproportionately arrest those who are black, and in “2008 African Americans represented 12 percent of the population, but they represented 40 percent of all arrests for violent crimes and 56 percent of all robbery arrests” (Anderson, 2000, p. 131). When considering this, many times documentaries, such as the one our class has seen, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, show the circumstances officers are placed in, especially when patrolling neighborhoods that are primarily populated by minorities or lower-class families. Furthermore, it is that these officers are supplying the attorneys with the criminals to defend, making it to where they are not controlling the kind of individual that appears in the court room or in their office.

One of the biggest problem we face today is social injustice, with the biggest cause by Police officers’ using excessive force on people, which is called police brutality for short. Police brutality happens to people of color because they are targeted more, “in the past 2 years 920 people have been unlawfully murdered by police officer”. The insane thing about this is that black people are more than twice likely to be unarmed when killed during police encounters than whites and within the same report found “blacks to be killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities. The police brutality is a troubling problem due to the excessive force of police officers use on people and a major problem that people fail to realize that it is a growing concern.