The Relationship Between Police Brutality And Violence

A report made on May 31st shows that at least 385 people have been killed by American police since 2015 has started. FBI reports show that over the past decade, the annual average for fatal shootings by police is about 400, and this year they are close to surpassing that only half-way through the year. Two thirds of these people have been either African American or Hispanic with one in six of them being unarmed at the time of the shooting. More than 80 percent of the shootings were because of what had started as minor things that escalated into assaults. This is important because police brutality has become a bigger issue with police being more likely to shoot with race in mind.

I am researching about the brutality of police and police militarization. Recently with shootings involving police officers have led to protests and controversy with people not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. This has led to outrage by many citizens, as well as Donald Trump stating that the NFL should take action against this. This issue has had people agree and disagree on the actions of the football players and this separation has increased following the shooting in Las Vegas, which took the lives of almost 60 people and wounded over 500 more. Police brutality has been a huge deal, especially with the LA Riots resulting from the beating of Rodney King, and recently with Ferguson and San Diego last year. The issue with Police Militarization

One issue in today’s society is police brutality and people dying police custody without answers. Many people think police are there for one’s safety while other question their purpose in society. In the article I read there was a reported 95 individual’s killed in last October. And for the total year a reported 950 people killed by police according to the police database. During this article I tied police brutality to sociology. The conflict theory involves structural inequality. The conflict theory also is viewed as a “tool” used the law or dominate groups. These dominate groups have social, political, and economic power, to maintain their privileged position over subordinate groups. Police use their privileges over subordinate groups. Police

Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians ("What Is Police Brutality?"). Recently, there have been a surplus of incidents involving police brutality. Cases like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice are examples of police brutality. All three of these victims ended up dead at the hands of police. Statistics show that, just this year alone, 1,013 Americans have been killed by cops (Cop Crisis). Social media has made it remarkably easy for cases like these to gain and raise awareness. Many hashtags and movements have begun because of the new-found awareness about police brutality. The public is finally recognizing it as a problem and movements are trying to remedy the system. Unfortunately, police brutality is not easy to fix. Some suggest we need to institute several laws, others think we need to get to the root of the problem and revamp the way police officers are trained.

Now days so many people were shoot by police officers. The society have been frightening about these situations. There are eyewitness videos as evidence, however; we have seen these cops still working. Nobody didn’t give attention to it and people who lost their family, friends and children need a justice. There are many videos that shows about police brutality, however, we have seen this cops on their jobs because these cops are all white people and the head of department police doesn’t take the action.

Isn’t our police force supposed to serve and protect us? To me it seems as though a lot of them have been taking advantage of their power and taking advantage of American citizens. For whatever reason our police seem to be doing things backwards from every other police system in the world. For example our cops do not stand out to the public where as in Europe and Asia’s police are bright yellow with checkered patterns, in order to allow the public to easily notice them and have the ability to call out to them for help when they’re needed. However our police likes to stay hidden and undercover from its citizen, and for what reason? Why are they hiding from us, they sneak around to try and get us in trouble for things that aren’t even a problem in most cases, like minor speeding tickets. They do this to meet their quotas. But that’s not where it stops. Police brutality is not something that’s suddenly uprising; it’s been around for a very long time. however recently it has been brought to headliners and gained the attention of hundreds of Americans due to the more drastic story’s that have been happening lately. Unfortunately a lot of these stories center around racism that still exists these days and not all cases of police brutality are caused from racism, but a majority of them are and there’s no denying that.

Over the last 16 years police brutality has gotten bigger. Police brutality is the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilian. Which in this case is used everywhere in the U.S. with every race. But people think that they only use assistive force on black people. But, in some cases that’s not true the use assistive force on every race.

The term / issue of “Police Brutality” has been going on as early as the late 1800s and is something that still possibly has the same effect to its victims today. On August 22, 2006, a twelve year old girl, Dymond Milburn, was sent outside to go switch a circuit breaker. Then a van with three undercover officers came out and accused her of being a prostitute and were about to arrest her. One of the men grabbed Dymond and said “You’re a prostitute. You’re coming with me.” Like any other person, her first reaction was to run and call for help. One of the officers had their hand over her mouth and they then started beating her face, head , and throat. Her father heard her and told them “That’s our daughter. She’s twelve.” The officers

Racism is the number one factor that will never depart in this world. Racism begun in the early 1600s and ended in the 1863 when the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment were added to the constitution immediately after the civil war. African-American went through a lot to gain freedom. The author Henry lousis gates stated that, “according to the slave trade database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the new world. 10.7 million Survived the dreaded middle passage”. Even though in a legal point of view racism has been demolish, but many individuals can’t move on from there ignorance. Racism is not only define as if its hate from the color of someone’s skin

The study of ethics in policing has expanded considerably over the past few years as cases of police brutality and corruption have surfaced in the media and in the courtroom. Commentators agree that three issues have shaped the role of ethics in policing: styles of policing, the police as an institution, and police culture. Banks, C. (2013). Criminal justice ethics: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. One of the few things that is really dividing the country is the attitude towards the police due to the killings of African Americans in of some cases unarmed or cases that the suspects could have been subdued in a non-lethal way; by the police over the past years, there have been many complaints from African American that

Police brutality is very much alive and relevant in the United States today. Statistics show that excessive force makes up over 23% of all misconduct reports filed against law enforcement. Unfortunately, 9.7% of all the brutality cases end with disciplinary action. That means 91.3% of the time nothing is done about their wrong doing. Even worse, blacks and latino are often the target of the brutality. Reporter Jonathan Capehart from the Washington Post said, “ My mom told me not to run in public, lest I arouse undue suspicion. How I most definitely should not run with anything in my hands, lest anyone think I stole something” (The Christian Century 1). White people definitely do not tell that to their children before they go out to play. Numbers

The police have currently killed a total of 1,001 people in the United States, according to the website, Mapping Police Violence. Black people were 26% of those killed despite being only 13% of the population, but what is the cause of this discrimination? This was the objective Jelani Cobb tried to determine when developing the film “Policing the Police” in 2016. The film was recorded in Newark, New Jersey due to its plagued by drug trafficking and gang violence and its homicide rate which is nine times higher than New York City. Forty-nine years prior to this film, a riot broke out in downtown Newark due to the deadly beating of an African American cab driver by the police and the Newark police responded by killing people who protested.

For this paper I will be talking about the process of setting up the debate and the topic of the debate. This was a new concept for me and I found it to be very interesting. When I registered for this class I didn’t think we’d be doing such debate oriented things and I have to say it was a great learning experience.

As the prevalence of police abuse as shown through the media has drawn loads of attention to the need for increased surveillance on police, a cure to this epidemic is now needed. While brutality and police abuse seems to be an outdated idea, the sudden surge of violence has caused police to fight back in what we would think of as un-police like manners. Methods must be created and acted upon which effectively deal with police who happen to cross the line, from simple situations to serious prejudice or violence. These solutions should be offered by a variety of viewpoints, from both sides of the spectrum, so they may address both the needs of law enforcement and citizens. Some of the solutions, especially policy changes, will be met with much

Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Walter Scott: these are only a few amongst thousands of victims of police brutality within the past couple of years. Perhaps the most disconcerting fact of this aggression is that it appears to have a specific target: the African American minority. The number of casualties due to racist police brutality keeps growing every day, and it will only continue to do so until action is taken against it. Here is where the problem arises, though; as individuals continue to die, nationwide not much is being done to prevent the occurrences of these attacks. People simply don’t recognize this aggression as more than a unilateral affair; there is a lack of understanding that this police brutality and its racist tendencies are a public health issue, too. People rarely think about the adverse effects on the individuals involved in the brutality or of the negative side effects cascading within their community. A large portion of the public is being marginalized and targeted, left to cope with the abuse. How can this brutality not be a public health issue? The neglection of the African American minority’s well-being by law enforcement and the intertwined systemic racism blatantly violates the core of public health and has deteriorated the physical and cognitive health of this specific community as opposed to protecting it.