Police Brutality or Legitimate Police Force? In the “Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement,” retired police officer and law enforcement author Vincent Henry defines the term police brutality as the “excessive, illegitimate, and/or illegal use of force by a police officer or a group of police officers upon one or more civilians.” Henry explains how police brutality is a complex issue in today’s society, and in order to understand it, one must be able to differentiate legitimate and illegitimate use of police force. Henry identifies this distinguishing factor as the “appropriateness and reasonableness of the quality and degree of force police use in light of the specific circumstances involved.”…
The article “The Media Underestimate Police Brutality” by Michael Novick opens with the following expression “Don't trust everything you read in the papers.” This article illustrates how the media portrays police brutality. Novick believes that police brutality is an epidemic and not an aberration. This article contains many well made points, but it is biased, has unsupported evidence, and too many facts that are not needed.…
In the image, the words are both strong and direct, “I’m going to kick your ass” is bigger, bolder and is at the top of the image. The second part of that sentence, “and get away with it” is at the bottom and is slightly smaller. The image also has the words “public” on the left hand corner and “service” on the right hand corner at the top. It also has “serve” and “protect” at the bottom corners of the image. The image is implying that white policemen can get away with beating up an innocent person. This is usually aimed at black and brown people. It shows that police brutality has been a problem in our society, not just of today, but in the past couple of centuries. The image has only three different colors which are used in a way that symbolizes that it has been around for a while now and nothing has changed. The image was made in 2007 and was reposted online by the creator Shepard Fairey after the Michael Brown case.…
Injustices in the World: Racism and Police Brutality – Rough Draft There are many injustices that happen in the world. These injustices, more often than not, inflict some sort of suffering and pain on someone or a group of people. Throughout organized religion, there is a common motif of suffering. Many are taught that suffering, like most pains in the world, is inevitable.…
You’ve heard about it, read about it, and maybe even seen live footage on the news. What is it? Living in the United States, a lot of cases in today’s society are Police Brutality. Police Brutality remains the most critical and divisive human rights violation in the United States of America. We are supposed to trust the police to protect us, not take advantage and abuse the power, we, the people, have invested in them. The immoderate use of police brutality continues because police don’t know how to de-escalate, most cops face no disciplinary threats, and because there are no clear policies on using force. This makes it feasible for officers who do commit brutality and human rights violations to abscond their punishment and repeat their offences.…
Police brutality has been witnessed recently over the years in America. The topic has been controversial among communities that have seen brutality in front of them. I understand that police officers face many threatening situations everyday forcing them to make split second decisions and to expect the worst and hope for the best. Police officers are allowed and have the power to take any citizens rights away. One…
Police brutality is a very important issue that the American people need to deal with. Police brutality is now a really popular topic, because of cellular devices and other video recording devices. Without those devices police brutality would continue to be swept under the media's rug. America needs to come together as one and make the United States a safer environment for all of its citizens. Police brutality can be prevented and handled by the judicial system. Making new stipulations for the Police department all across the country, such as forcing police officers to take a sensitivity course, requiring officers to wear cameras on themselves when on duty, and having officers take therapy sessions…
Police brutality is the excessive use of violence against people in different areas of the United States by police. Police brutality is something that is talked about a lot by different people: people of different races, genders, and age groups. This is a big problem that is happening in the United States and has been happening for a while now. There has been many issues of police brutality in the past few years. Police brutality issues seem to happen the most within the African American community because there seems to be more deaths under police surveillance in the African American community. There has also been a number of people in the African American community that have been victims of police brutality such as Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and many others. According to statistics…
Racial Profiling, we see it, hear it, and experience it, all because of our skin color, ethnicity or simply because of our names. All throughout the country, millions experience racial profiling whether it’s in a school, a restaurant, their neighborhood, or in jail. Racial Profiling has destroyed the public trust in not only police officers but from everyone around them as well. Listening to movements based on the killings due to being a certain race and learning from the death of Eric Garner and the series of deaths of others, concludes that two issues need to be solved: racial profiling and police…
Police brutality is a fact of American life. In most major cities across the country, officers abuse their authority in the most flagrant ways. New York City and Los Angeles are the most notorious for police brutality cases. In New York, when mayor Rudolph Giuliani took office in 1994, he instituted a "zero tolerance" policy, the theory that allowing small crimes to pass unpunished will encourage disrespect for the law in larger matters. This led to a huge increase in arrests for small crimes like playing music too loudly, biking on the sidewalk, and public drinking (Progressive). New York city has managed to bring down the murder rate from 2,200 in 1992 to 600 in 1998 (Economist), but some officers got the idea that it was ok to rough people up -…
Being a policeman is an important profession in our life. Society needs a police officer to control the system that the government has given them. Being a policeman is a very difficult job to consider, they catch criminals, rescue someone by sacrificing themselves, they even go to death for other ordinary people. However, not every police officer is not the same and many of them use their power against unarmed, innocent people. Some police officers have biased opinions about other race representatives and they judge people by their color, religion, gender, etc.…
After reading and analyzing Black Boy and various current articles, I am now able to draw parallels between how whites treated of African Americans in two different times. Coming into this project, I knew about present day race issues and the form in which racism presents itself, however I have certainly learned many new things about police brutality and what motivates it. Since the early 1900’s and long before(when Richard Wright was growing up), racism has been a frequent theme in America. However, racism has changed and evolved. Racism used to be mainly expressed explicitly, whereas nowadays racism has changed to being implicit. This means that people make presumptions and have prejudices about race subconsciously. Racism can range from…
A solid metal is dropped from the height of 64 feet. How long will it take for the solid metal to hit the ground? Ignore the air resistance.…
As we all know police are world known and are for our safety, but others think else where about police officers. Police officer exist to protect our rights and our freedom. They can perform these duties through coercion and physical force, the ultimate threat to freedom.…
The role of police in society is to protect and serve the community. Maintaining public safety is one of their biggest responsabilities, though all the while trying not to overstep the many roles of the many roles of other officers. Police officers work in a sort of cause and effect manner. For example by apprehending and arrest the criminals they keep the streets safer, or many would say they exercise crime prevention. A big service to the people of the community for example is to provide many services’ to the community. Many times an officer could simply aid a woman in need of assistance from the safety of her job exit to her car, or answering a disturbance call on the 4th of July assisting in the whole street being able to sleep better. These calls seem minute but are a big deal when it comes to city ordinances and keeping the peace. If the role of police were lessoned then the community in itself would not feel as save. Response time in emergency situations would be lessoned. The fact that detectives do a huge part in taking evidence and investigating crime scenes, it still is a small part of police work and that would also be jeopardized, because if police were not able to get there first, then the crime scene could be jeopardized and so could the evidence, The…