Argumentative Essay On Police Shootings

There have been around 715 people that have been shot by police alone in 2016. Police violence in the US has become a major point of interest recently due to the amount of shootings. In recent news there have been many reports of police shooting and/or killing black men, which has led to movements such as the black lives matter movement, a movement working for the validity of black lives. Although there are points made to support both sides of the story, I feel that the police are to blame for the recent amount of violence. Many of the recent reports of black males being shot by the police has sparked a conversation about if the police should wear body cameras and has sparked the gun control debate in the United States. After reaching levels of police brutality as it was in the 1990’s with things
Another fact is that about a quarter of the people killed due to police violence were identified as mentally ill by either police or family members. People of all ages have been shot and killed throughout each of the 50 states with the youngest recorded being 16. A very shocking statistic is that around 98% of the events ended up with the police officer not being charged with a crime. There are many interesting solutions to fixing the shootings happening all around such as having a second gun that would only have rubber bullets which has enough power to damage a person and might have enough stopping power or to replace all bullets with rubber bullets. Replacing bullets with rubber bullets might work well against unarmed victims but if the police were actually in danger the rubber bullets might end up costing them their lives. A surprising trend that I was able to find is that if the trend of deaths continues, there could be over one thousand police shootings in 2016