where the police‚ who are supposed to protect and serve the community‚ assault‚ harass‚ and discriminate the people for no apparent reason? First off‚ that is called police brutality and it sure does not go down well at all‚ police brutality is a serious crime and should not be taken lightly at all just because they are police officers. Police officers tend to be looked at very negatively from a civilian’s point of view‚ and to me the main reason why they are is because of police brutality. In many
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October 13th‚ 2013 Brutality: In modern day America police brutality occurs quite often. Police officers are using unreasonable forces on criminals‚ which are causing lots of chaos. People are getting seriously injured and killed. These horrific actions have to be extinguished. Reasonable can be defined in many ways. According to Mirriam-Webster’s definition reasonable means being in accordance with reason‚ not extreme or excessive‚ moderate‚ fair‚ and having the faculty of reason (Merriam-webster
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may think that the police is going too far‚ and others will say that the citizen in the video might have done something that made that person deserve what just happened. People can take footage out of the video to make one side look bad and the other look better. Just by watching the video‚ you can’t tell whether who is at fault here. My issue is about whether police should wear security cameras on them on all times and to keep them on the whole time. Lately‚ police brutality has been becoming another
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Analyzing an Argument This argument is directed to two different types of people: the police and the public. This addresses two different types of an audience. It addresses a hostile audience and it addresses a sympathetic audience. You can who the audience is because the author tells you in the essay. The tone of this essay is informative and it uses a lot of examples. This brings up our second major tool. This tool is called pathos. The author uses some very detailed examples of events that
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Political Corruption Over time in politics‚ it has been observed as some presidents or subordinates have been involved in scandals that have raised people’s distrust‚ after “appearance of corruption or other misconduct" have been revealed to the public through the press. Although today’s political corruption has been decreased in public office‚ the U.S Constitution created a system called "checks and balances to limit executive corruption." Before the introduction of the current system designated
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Alton sterling‚ Philando Castile and Gregory Gunn are just 3 out of 136 African Americans whose lives were taken by police officers this year. Those were not the only lives that were taken in 2016. Not only have these men lost their lives for unfair reasons‚ their families have lost somebody so important in their lives. Police brutality with black people is a serious issue. If these 3 men were white wouldn’t these stories sound different? Alton Sterling was 37 year old black man from Baton Rouge
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and discretion in police work produces great potential for abuse. Police corruption has been a problem in American society since the early days of policing. An ancient natural tendency of human beings is to attempt to placate or win over those in positions of authority over them. This tendency is complicated in today’s materialistic society by greed and by the personal and financial benefit to be derived from evading law. The temptations toward illegality offered to police range from free
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definition of Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial gain‚ other personal gain‚ or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing‚ or selectively pursuing‚ an investigation or arrest. One common form of police corruption is taking bribes in exchange for not reporting organized drug or prostitution rings or other illegal activities. Another example is police officers misusing the police code of conduct
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The term “police corruption” brings shame and public skepticism about our front line of defense against the criminal element. While the corrupt may be only a small number of officers‚ the idea or actions of the few effect the entire institution of law enforcement throughout the country. Police corruption is not a new concept. We start to see corruption from the modern police force. Corruption is not something that used to happen. Today throughout the United States police departments have been hit
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What causes police brutality‚ and why are minority citizens the primary victims? The U.S. History Encyclopedia defines police brutality as the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. Most brutality began during strikes in the late 1800’s‚ early 1900’s. The strikes involved African Americans speaking out for their rights as citizens of the United States. Police brutality is one of the seven forms of police misconduct‚ the others being: false arrest
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