Police Brutality Argumentative Essay

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    Racial discrimination, aggression, and police brutality have been an ongoing issue in the U.S, It was present in the past and continues to be a problem to this day, peaceful protests are turing into murder scenes children are being taught to fear cops instead of trust them people are afraid to leave their home. There is an obvious underlying issue causing innocent lives on both sides to be lost. In the past year there have been 300+ fatal shootings between police and African Americans some of the most

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    increasing which is why the world needs more detectives on the job. People who want to make the community a safer place and are serious about the job need to take into consideration about learning the job responsibilities and educational requirements. Police officers also need to work harder

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    young black Canadian experience is police carding, but the average youth seem to not even know what police carding is. Carding is an intelligence gathering policy of the Toronto Police Service involving the stopping, questioning, and documenting of individuals when no particular offence is being investigated (IN-Text Citations).According to star studies show that black people are three times more likely to be stop than white (in- text citation) which makes Police Carding seem like racial profiling

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    This is a huge dilemma for rookie officer that have just started their careers in law enforcement. As a rookie officer you are assigned a field training officer that will assist you in your training and the development of your future career. As a rookie officer you are supposed to listen and follow your field training officer’s direction and instructions. A field training officer is task with ensuring that he guides you and makes sure you make the right decisions while you are under his supervisor

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    and the police didn’t drag her off” (Bachman, sub-quote)

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    -By definition the term police brutality is “applied in the context of causing physical harm, it may also involve psychological harm through the use of intimidation tactics beyond the scope of officially sanctioned police procedure.” In today’s society we have police known as riot police, who are known throughout the world to use extreme force. Statistics show almost every time the riot police are involved in crowd control, there is at least one fatality and multiple injured. This is why I believe

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    racial tension between blacks and whites. For example in Dothan, Alabama where majority of the police in their department would target young black men and plant weapons and drugs on them to make them seem guilty even though they were innocent. In the article “Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department planted drugs on young Blacks For Year, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit” by Jon B. Carroll. Police officers occasionally perform illegal searches on people without the proper consent by the

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    towards different races. The police play a big part in our society, and sometimes racism guides their decisions the wrong way. The first important reason I will discuss is the justice system in our society. The second important argument I will talk about is the Rodney King trial and beating. The final reason I will explore is how racism relates with To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM). For example, it was very important that the jury of Tom Robinson was honest and truthful. The police play a huge role in our

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    We began to move in on them, surrounding them while those behind us provided covering fire. They would sometimes take a shot at us without looking, but none of them ever came close. Finally the guerrillas were able to move up far enough that they were right in front of the SUVs. One of the guerrillas with a clear grudge ran around the side and began to spray the men with bullets. He fell, but only after taking out seven of the eight, the final one surrendered. We all ran down the street while two

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    The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is the tenth largest suburban agency in the country. The sheriff’s Office annual budget estimated to be 370 million. The current chief law enforcement in charge is Sheriff David Gee, who elected into office in 2004. After he had been elected to his position, subsequently, in “2007, he was awarded “Sheriff of the Year” by the National Crisis Intervention Team. In 2015, he was awarded the Liberty Bell Award by the Hillsborough County Bar Association”

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