Police Brutality
A Brutal Force
Persuasive/Policy/Problem/Cause/Solution
Central Idea/Thesis: Police brutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.
INTRODUCTION
I. Police brutality is constantly made known to us all through mass media, but I hadn’t ever taken the time to truly grasp the severity of it until it hit close to home.
A. Three weeks ago, a close family friend was brutally beaten in front of his children at a family gathering by the police.
B. My purpose is to persuade my audience that police brutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.
C. Today I will discuss how police brutality is a major problem throughout the United States, as well as two of its main causes and how this problem requires us to deal with both of these causes.
TRANSITION I will now discuss my first main point.
BODY
II. Police brutality has been a problem throughout the United States for as long as its history goes back.
A. This threat to our security only continues to develop at a ferocious rate.
1. Recent news broadcasts have been supplied with a plethora of cases of police brutality throughout the country.
a) The recent cases of Trayvon Martin, the horrors in Ferguson, and the shooting of an unarmed 93 year-old Pearlie Golden are all examples of the growing problem of police brutality.
b) The families of these victims will continue to suffer from the loss of their loved ones, as will those that have had their eyes opened to these horrors.
2. This brutality at the hands of those that are supposed to protect us, has begun to surpass other terrors we are faced with.
a) “The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489.” (Global Research News, 2014) (verbatim)
b) This is the harsh reality we are faced with.
B. This increase of police brutality has caused a decrease in
Persuasive/Policy/Problem/Cause/Solution
Central Idea/Thesis: Police brutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.
INTRODUCTION
I. Police brutality is constantly made known to us all through mass media, but I hadn’t ever taken the time to truly grasp the severity of it until it hit close to home.
A. Three weeks ago, a close family friend was brutally beaten in front of his children at a family gathering by the police.
B. My purpose is to persuade my audience that police brutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.
C. Today I will discuss how police brutality is a major problem throughout the United States, as well as two of its main causes and how this problem requires us to deal with both of these causes.
TRANSITION I will now discuss my first main point.
BODY
II. Police brutality has been a problem throughout the United States for as long as its history goes back.
A. This threat to our security only continues to develop at a ferocious rate.
1. Recent news broadcasts have been supplied with a plethora of cases of police brutality throughout the country.
a) The recent cases of Trayvon Martin, the horrors in Ferguson, and the shooting of an unarmed 93 year-old Pearlie Golden are all examples of the growing problem of police brutality.
b) The families of these victims will continue to suffer from the loss of their loved ones, as will those that have had their eyes opened to these horrors.
2. This brutality at the hands of those that are supposed to protect us, has begun to surpass other terrors we are faced with.
a) “The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489.” (Global Research News, 2014) (verbatim)
b) This is the harsh reality we are faced with.
B. This increase of police brutality has caused a decrease in
References: "Shielded from Justice:." Shielded from Justice:. 1 Jan. 1997. Web. 14 Nov. 2014. <http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/cases/katrina/Human Rights Watch/uspohtml/uspo30.htm>.