Why Do We Need Police Brutality?

There has been a significant interest in exploring the problems and potential solutions to policing in the 21st century. Community policing is a system that was enacted for the police to address problems and interact with the community to keep it safe and productive. In contrast, the police are behaving in contradictory ways. It is important to give awareness to people about the police brutality occurring in our present day and some of the effective ways to resolve these issues. Some of the solutions to police brutality are police accountability. By mandating proper training, the use of body cameras to evaluate their social skills and evaluations that determine police conduct in the communities they serve. One of the major problems in the
Consequently, many police chiefs and other law enforcement administrators often do not make evaluation a priority. Instead, the reluctance to integrate and implement evaluation might be due to not wanting to invest in learning bad news (Ward, Chibnall, and Harris, 2007). The police department is afraid of discovering more problems within their system and would rather overlook their flaws. The city council, under the chief commissioner, should require conduct evaluations for both police departments and officers. These enforced evaluations would be for both police officers and community members. They will determine how well they assist the individual or people. According to Ward et., (2007), it is essential to “evaluate the short-term temporary gains associated with reactive policing so that we can effectively plan for long-term neighborhood improvements”. Police should be required to move beyond mere opinion and justify their work through complete and quality evaluations. With the use of evaluations, it may help predict the things that work and do not work within the department as well as the officers. This may be done through self-reports police officers give to their captains, or surveys given to local community businesses to assess how well the police officer did their assigned job. There is also another benefit to having members of the community evaluate officers and that is building community
This is another form of police brutality. “Racial profiling by law enforcement is commonly defined as a practice that targets people for suspicion of crime based on their race, ethnicity, religion or national origin” (NIJ, 2013). Some police officers may have created profiles or stereotypes about the kinds of people who commit certain types of crimes and may lead to generalizations about particular groups. This may, in fact, be very unjustifiable because officers will act according to their generalizations rather than to the specific behavior. Studies show that compared to Whites, more people of color are incarcerated. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned (Kerby, 2012). Racial and ethnic minority distrust the police due to the lack of police legality. This is based largely on their interactions with the police. Similarly, distrust of police has serious consequences because it undermines them and without the legitimacy of the police, they lose their ability and authority to function effectively (NIJ, 2013). Terrell Jermaine Starr, a New York City-based freelance journalist (2015) mentioned “but in communities like mine, the predominately black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, putting more officers on patrol doesn’t lessen the chance of police brutality —