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    Shocking Police Brutality Statistics,” 2017). About 69% of victims of police brutality are African Americans that were suspected of doing a non-violent crime and were unarmed (“42 Shocking Police Brutality Statistics,” 2017). Looking at the statistics we have a problem with police discriminating against other races. We need to look at these statistics and make a change. Training Police training can have a huge impact on police discrimination. Even though there are plenty of corrupt police out there

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    Police Brutality Report

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    On August 9th, 2014 , Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer in a St. Louis, Missouri, suburb. Following the shooting, the largely populated black city of Ferguson erupted into protests, forcing the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to make an investigation into the incident. Law enforcement nowadays has become a major problem lately, they have been arresting and murdering hundreds of black people, for crimes if a white person did, will receive different treatment

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    Police Brutality Essay

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    According to Wihbey and Kille in their article “Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict.”, police brutality is a problem, and especially a problem for teenage colored boys. Young black males are actually twenty one times more likely to undergo police brutality by getting shot than a white male of the same age. Racial Profiling--people of color being more likely to be stopped by an officer--is also a growing problem with our society. Whether or not

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    Essay On Police Brutality

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    Police officers have killed roughly 1,000 people in the year of 2017 alone. That’s not even including how many people have been injured. Understanding the concept of police brutality is way more in depth than what most people make it seem to be (Cha-Jua pg.56). If an officer is accompanied by his partner and he witnesses his partner creating a crime or either using force where force is not needed, is a perfect example of police brutality (Bandes). In order for an officer to use force with a citizen

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    Police are abusing their power, of their badge, instead of serve and protect; their ignoring and abusing. There's been many killings (almost about 5,000 people),abusing, and people being ignored from police, Why? For nearly 50 years, a deadly and effective attack has been orchestrated against local police departments all throughout the United States and most Americans do not even realize it is happening. News people like CNN, CBS, or Fox 4 News sometimes get a scoop of the police beating, but more

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    My topic will be about police brutality and how it effects everyone but especially the African American community. First I would like to get into how in America we have been having some problems for decades regarding police brutality, for example lately over last 3 to 5 years we have been seeing people with camera catching police shooting unarmed African Americans, yet when the officer gets to court they never get convicted rarely do you ever see police officers ever get convicted when they shoot

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    Police brutality is a phenomena that is documented throughout a myriad of societies from Russia, China, Indonesia, Palestine, Egypt to the United States. Police brutality is the use of force which exceeds what is needed in order to accomplish a legal police purpose.Throughout America 's history, minorities, specifically Black people, have been the disproportionate target of police brutality. Amnesty International has documented several examples of police brutality, including instances of beatings

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    Police Brutality Issues

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    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

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    Essay On Police Brutality

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    Police brutality refers to the intentional use of verbal attacks or excessive force directed towards a country's citizens by the police force. This excessive force may be physical or in form of psychological intimidation. Police brutality is highly evident in many countries all over the world especially in the news where such cases are reported. It is seen as a form of police misconduct which involves sexual abuse, police corruption, false arrests, racial profiling, and political repression. These

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    national topic, police brutality. Jana Kooren of ACLU of Minnesota writes in The Hard Truth of the Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protests: Communities of Color Have No Trust in Their Police Force. The authors main point of the article was to articulate the disaster that affects African Americans disproportionately. Jamar Clark is one in a thousand this year who have died in the hands of police who have overexerted their power. He sadly became another member of this deadly year, when two police officers

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