Police Brutality Cases

Police brutality is a major and colossal problem that plagues the United States on a daily basis. Not only does it affect the citizens and people that the cases happen to, but it affects their family when he or she is put into the Criminal Justice system. The headlines in the news that grab the most attention is for police brutality and how much punishment was afflicted on the suspect before he or she stopped resisting to the police officer. In a study regarding police brutality cases conducted by researchers, most of the officers reports about the situations that happened and the suspects were totally opposite (Evaluation of Use of Force, July 2010). Claims of police brutality sometimes exist to get some free benefits from society without needing to work. There comes a time when police are subjected to unnecessary backlash and insults
In conducting this research, there was a big gap between police officer and suspect accounts. Usually the suspect would say that the police officer enjoyed seeing them in pain and would try to tase them even though they were under control. This contrasted with how police officers would say that they used only have enough force to get the situation under control (NCJRS Section 7). The police officers said that it was mainly the suspects who resisted more than they should have. From the report it was stated that when police tried to use oleoresin capsicum on drunk or high patients, this had no effect on them (NCJRS, Section 7). This will lead in turn to make some police officers use more force than necessary to help calm down suspects. If a police officer is struggling for his or her life and is trying to put a stop to it, he or she might believe to go straight to a Taser or lethal force in trying to subdue the suspect. This is a downward spiral of events that could result in more force being necessary to accomplish a suspect’s