The Police Force Is Justified

Unlike many other jobs, police officers never truly leave their position, they are only ever off duty. This means police officers keep their responsibilities as an officer, even when they are off duty. This has created many questions about how far police officers can go when using force off duty, and different results have come from courts dealing with these issues in different places of jurisdiction. In the scenario, the police officer would be protected in using lethal force because he is defending

the problem of excessive force and police brutality. While there are many people that claim that the presence of local police force is beneficial, the Community of Relations Service of the United States Department of Justice claims that in incidents where minority communities often do not have good relations with the police force, a small incident involving the use of force will often result in a violent disturbance (Community, 1). These tensions between the police force and minority communities

Police brutality has been a hot topic for several years now and is debated throughout the country. The definition of police brutality is is the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. This topic is said that police officers can use to much force when stopping someone.The opposing views that exist say that police brutality is real and a problem that the country needs to deal with, and the other side is that this topic is blown over proportion and

Abstract The unnecessary use of force use the police officers is referred to as police use of excessive force and police brutality. Both excessive force and police brutality involve physical contact with a law enforcement officer with a citizen or civilian. Physical contact and police brutality can both lead to death. It is entirely within the police officer discretion the type of force to use during an arrest. Maybe a police officer’s cannot handle making the correct judgment call, or perhaps having

should handle police brutality cases, provides a different view to consider when dealing with the Justice Department, “Another thing to take into consideration is, “The Justice Department needs a more coherent and accessible approach to the collection and analysis of police abuse data…Without essential information about the problem of police brutality, the Department cannot effectively combat [such brutality].” Some feel that is not necessary for police to wear cameras because self-defense does not

As a police officer, I have dedicated my life in serving the people and keeping them safe from potentially dangerous criminals. I had just gotten home from duty and turned on the TV. The news was on and they were reporting about the officer that shot and killed Michael Brown. The first thing that I thought was that the media has blown this incident was out of proportion. Brown must have been seen as a threat by the officer to the public to actually be shot. The protesters are calling us cops racist

use of force by law enforcement officers is described by the Internal Association of Chiefs of Police as the “amount of effort required by police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject” (National Institute of Justice, 2016). The amount of force used by the law enforcement officer is situational based dependent the officer’s perception and the subject’s actions (National Institute of Justice, 2016). When a law enforcement officer uses force, they should only use the amount of force necessary

If the local police cannot handle the situation then military force should be called in the absolute worse situation when citizens lives are at risk. Military force shouldn’t be called in for riots or protests. It only aggravates the rioters and protestors. Not solving the situation. It’s

The officer’s actions were justified in this case because Lieutenant Baxter reasonably believed that force was necessary to defend himself from the young man. According to one section of the Penal Code, a deadly physical force is justified when the officer reasonably believes that a person has committed a felony and that, in attempting to escape from the custody or in resisting arrest, the felon is armed with a deadly weapon. When the young man stole Mr. Marcel Potts’ car, he is guilty of theft.

lawsuits filed and won against the Oakland Police Department for police misconduct. Misconduct has always been an issue with law enforcement. Starting in the early years of law enforcement there were policies set to keep officers from committing these actions. In time, the policies have been changed, reconstructed, and updated to increase effectiveness and efficiency. To get a better view on how these policies are implemented, the actions of the police officers in Allen versus the city of Oakland