Police Brutality Argumentative Essay

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    Today thousands of young students go to colleges and universities here in America. With so many young minds placed onto one campus with little to no parental supervision the question is asked: are college campuses a safe place? Yes, most college campuses across America are safe. A study prepared by “the campaign to keep guns off campus” shows that the crime rate for college is monumentally lower than the rate for the city where the campus is located. For example, in 2013 the city of Jacksonville

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    killings conducted by police officers in the national scene. Recently a black man named Alfred Olango was killed by police in a parking lot. The man who was unarmed was killed by the police in a rather unexpected way as initially the sister to the man had called 911 to seek help from the police department since he felt that the brother was not acting as himself. He had shown an awkward behavior which the sister could hardly comprehend or even work with. This prompted her to call the police so that he could

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    believes that if someone thinks something is not right, that person should speak up, even if they are scared to do so. Jaycee mentioned in her memoir, “The officers said that if I didn’t tell them my name and the truth, I would be taken down to the police station and fingerprinted and then they would find out who I was,” (208). The way Jaycee describes the moment she was released from her restraint, delivers the impression of how crucial it is to question a condition that doesn’t seem correct. The

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    the Life of a Police Officer For my ethnographic essay I chose to study the life of police officers who work in the City of Saginaw. Today’s society is consumed by false statements and false social media articles. There are thousands of articles, television commercials, and websites about police brutality, race problems, and rarely seeing anything good about police officers. Lately it seems as though society is more concerned about police brutality than actual positive affects police officers have

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    follows remarks from the director of the FBI who was critiquing the idea of filming police officers for safety. This article stems from a much larger topic that has been in the recent news for the past few years: police brutality against people of color, primarily black men. James Comey, following the recent viral videos outbreak of wrongdoings by police being caught on tape, is stating that these videos are causing police to fear doing their job. The article goes on to critique his claims, pointing

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    Over time the Chicago Police Department unconstitutionally engaged in a pattern of excessive force on civilian. There department was under a lot of scrutiny over officer involved shooting. The Justice Department, which began its investigation amid public uproar over the 2014 fatal shooting by Chicago police of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. It found numerous incident of unjustified force. Chicago Police was shooting at vehicles without justification, using tasers on people who posed no threat. They

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    Bang, the sound of a gunshot is heard, a rapid succession of shots are fired. More gunshots are being fired, what is going on? People are screaming, shouting, and chaos is everywhere. Bang, bang, bang more shots fired. What is going on? Looking out the windows to see that there are people lying on the ground dead. Some of the people are not moving, there is blood is everywhere. Then there is white hot pain in the shoulder, what has happened? Looking down, there is blood soaking through the shirt

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    Crime In New Orleans

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    Crime in New Orleans has dropped significantly since Hurricane Katrina. The crime homicides went down by 1.15 percent. It may not sound like a big number, but it is less than the number before Hurricane Katrina. People started stealing from each other because they were poor and could not afford anything. Then the person would murder the guy who stole from him, or you have the people who just shoot teach other just because. These things still happen today but not as much as before the hurricane

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    Think about it do this reader have life changing rules? If this reader have you are loyal, if the reader don’t listen up because you missed a lot. Let's start from the beginning. “Bud not Buddy” was made in 1999 by Christopher Paul Curtis. In 1966 they got their classic and award winning literature for young reader. This book is about Bud going through a series of events to find his family. In Bud, Not Buddy, Bud’s rules help him thrive, and three examples of those rules are #8, # 83, and #16. One

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    As we continue in our busy lives, we always take into account what the next days, weeks, or even months hold for us. But what do we Americans hope for in future years, as a country? There have been several events that have occurred around the world affecting our lives in a positive way. However, there were many crises that have set us back, though we try to strive and become even stronger. To continue improving America, we must have the ability to come together as a whole and progress as the days

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