The Negative Effects Of Police Brutality

Throughout the past couple years, no topic has reached as much publicity as police brutality. In the United States, police officers are using excessive force towards minorities, especially African Americans. In other words, police officers are reacting to a situation with deadly or harmful force towards minorities. In the past couple years, police officers are constantly being put in the lime light. With these scary stories circulating the internet, people are scared to step out of their homes because they think that they could die or go to jail. These news stations just focus on the bad sides of police officers and not the good side because it will bring a ton of attention and money to them. But police officers have a very dangerous job and
Robert H Kirschner wrote about a Haitian Immigrant that was assaulted by police officers from the New York Police Department. On August 9, 1997, Abner Louima was arrested because he assaulted a cop outside a New York City nightclub (Kirschner, Police Brutality in the USA). While being transported to the police station, he was assaulted by the arresting officer on the side of road. When he arrived at the police station he was brought to the bathroom and was sexually assaulted with a toilet plunger (Kirschner, Police Brutality in the USA). When he arrived at the hospital for his wounds, one of the nurses saw the damaged done to Abner and called the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau (Kirschner, Police Brutality in the USA). Later the officers that were a part of the assault were indicted. The officers that do these terrible crimes are repeated offenders and just get off with warnings (Kirschner, Police Brutality in the USA). It just comes to show that some people are so menacing and nasty to other human
A taser is the newest pieces of equipment that a police officer could have (PoliceHow, Police Duty Gear and Equipment). The nice thing about a taser is that they are an effective way to neutralize an individual without causing little to no harm. A typical police taser can travel approximately 15-25 feet and penetrate through most articles of clothing while still inflicting 50,000 volts (PoliceHow, Police Duty Gear and Equipment). While a suspect is being shocked by a taser, a police officer could handcuff the suspect and put them in the squad car to bring them back to the police