Analysis Of Police Brutality: Beatdown By The Badge
Brandon Nelson
12/5/2014
EN 11011
Essay 3
Beatdown by the Badge.
Police brutality has been an issue in America now for quite some time. Recently, it seems to have hit crisis proportions. There are protests popping up in cities all across the country. Why is police brutality now in the national spotlight and on the tips of most Americans tongues? Due to the advancement of technology the last 15 years or so, people now have the ability on their phone to video record and upload to the internet, police officers that abuse their authority while making an arrest. There are many incidents of brutality that have gone viral. Gone are the days of your Sheriff Andy Dalton and his Deputy Barney Fife, friendly cops whose duty it is to serve and protect. …show more content…
As stated on the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) website, “every day, law enforcement officers face danger while carrying out their responsibilities. When dealing with a dangerous-or unpredictable-situation, police officers usually have very little time to access it and determine the proper response.” Proper training techniques about how to access and handle situations teach officers how to implement use of force. “The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in its study, Police Use of Force in America 2001, defined use of force as ‘the amount of effort required by the police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject.’” There are many instances of abuse of how the use of force protocol is abused by an officer and very little done about …show more content…
The video shows the officer repeatedly punching the girl as her mother begging the officer to stop. The young girl was “screaming that she couldn’t breathe as her mother attempted to explain to the officers that she has mental problems as well as asthma.”(Rules) On Santiago’s Facebook page he stated that one officer explained that the arresting officer “acted correctly” and “if she needed to, she could have shot her dead.” That is pretty disturbing to hear considering the 15 year old girl was unarmed.
A particularly disturbing case is reported by the NY Daily News, in which Akai Gurley, 28, was “dying in a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn housing development, the cop who fired the fatal bullet was texting his union representative.” (Parascandola) It’s reported that the officers were incommunicado for six and a half minutes. When the officers “finally resurfaced on the radio, they reported an accidental
12/5/2014
EN 11011
Essay 3
Beatdown by the Badge.
Police brutality has been an issue in America now for quite some time. Recently, it seems to have hit crisis proportions. There are protests popping up in cities all across the country. Why is police brutality now in the national spotlight and on the tips of most Americans tongues? Due to the advancement of technology the last 15 years or so, people now have the ability on their phone to video record and upload to the internet, police officers that abuse their authority while making an arrest. There are many incidents of brutality that have gone viral. Gone are the days of your Sheriff Andy Dalton and his Deputy Barney Fife, friendly cops whose duty it is to serve and protect. …show more content…
As stated on the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) website, “every day, law enforcement officers face danger while carrying out their responsibilities. When dealing with a dangerous-or unpredictable-situation, police officers usually have very little time to access it and determine the proper response.” Proper training techniques about how to access and handle situations teach officers how to implement use of force. “The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in its study, Police Use of Force in America 2001, defined use of force as ‘the amount of effort required by the police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject.’” There are many instances of abuse of how the use of force protocol is abused by an officer and very little done about …show more content…
The video shows the officer repeatedly punching the girl as her mother begging the officer to stop. The young girl was “screaming that she couldn’t breathe as her mother attempted to explain to the officers that she has mental problems as well as asthma.”(Rules) On Santiago’s Facebook page he stated that one officer explained that the arresting officer “acted correctly” and “if she needed to, she could have shot her dead.” That is pretty disturbing to hear considering the 15 year old girl was unarmed.
A particularly disturbing case is reported by the NY Daily News, in which Akai Gurley, 28, was “dying in a darkened stairwell at a Brooklyn housing development, the cop who fired the fatal bullet was texting his union representative.” (Parascandola) It’s reported that the officers were incommunicado for six and a half minutes. When the officers “finally resurfaced on the radio, they reported an accidental