Police Brutality In Today's Society

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 is the deliberate use of extreme force by an authority figure, which often ends
with bruises, broken bones, blood shed, and in most cases death. Officers too often fire their weapons in a manner and in certain conditions that place innocent onlooker in danger; accidentally firing their fire arms, sometimes fortuitously hitting nothing and other times shooting innocent people and severely injuring them. CDP officers too often use dangerous and poor tactics to try gain control of suspects, which normally results in the application of supplementary force or places others in danger. Unsympathetically, police officers do not make actual use de-escalation techniques, too often instead escalating encounters and employing force when it may not be needed and could be avoided. I once witnessed a situation of the police failing to de-escalate a situation. It was a disabled student who was beaten by a police officer at a school for special needs children where I was once employed at. The police officer ordered the disabled student to tuck in his shirt and the student did not understand what the police officer was saying so he started to act belligerent. The police officer proceeded to slam him against the wall, repeatedly punch him in the face, and held his face towards the floor, breaking his nose and preventing him from breathing. Several students and teachers had to physically remove the police officer from the disabled student. The police officer was placed on administrative leave and later resigned. After I witnessed this situation I started to question my trust and protection around my city and my surroundings. “Who's here to protect us from the cops when they decide to use excessive force, shoot multiple shells, and/or murder us?” ― Obiora Embry, Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions. Discipline is very rare when you are a police officer.
According to statistics, “no more than 51 officers out of a sworn force of 1,500 were disciplined in any fashion in connection with a use of force incident over a three and a half year period.” - Saloncom RSS. To focus on discipline is predominately punishment, not behavior change. In that case, police officers will still act the way they do towards people of our country because it is not guaranteed that the predominately punishment will change their behavior. I believe that when police officers abuse their authority, they should be terminated, not disciplined. Why? Because most officers get resentful when disciplined and a majority of time after being disciplined, there is still no change. I once had to interview an officer for a high school project and one of the things that officers that often complain about when they are being disciplined is the way it is done. “I was not treated with respect” said the police officer. It wasn’t long until the officer’s humiliation turned into anger and then indignation. An irritated, resentful officer is not good for the
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