Police Brutality is a wrongful crime and people who participated in the violence should be punished. Many people are victims and are affected by police brutality. People in authority should not be able to go without consequences for abusing their power. Police Brutality is the use of excessive and unnecessary by police when dealing with civilians. Police brutality can be present in physical forms such as tazing‚ pepper spray‚ and guns to intimidate or intentionally hurt the victim. Police brutality
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Five Forum When you begin to get into police discretion‚ you have to first bring up the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. Did the subject mean to do whatever the issue is? Is there intent? When I was first married years ago my wife had gotten a parking ticket in Hoke County‚ NC. It was one of those things that got poked away in her glove box. I had found the ticket and taken it to the Hoke County courthouse to pay it. I paid by check (that is how we used to do things.) I was working as
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The Nature of Police Work The myth of police as crime-fighters has been conveyed to the American people through television dramas‚ comic strips‚ and newspaper articles. It conjures up in one’s mind an image of a police officer doing a dangerous job that requires him or her to outshoot‚ outpunch‚ and outwit dangerous criminals. For most American police‚ there is little correspondence between this image and reality. In a major metropolitan area (where crime rates are the highest)‚ half of the officers
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Police brutality is a phenomenon that has stood the test of time and it is the culprit to igniting many passionate debates across the United States. The term "police brutality" was in use in the United States as early as 1872‚ when the Chicago Tribune reported on the beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station (1872)‚ and more recently when the CBS news reported that an officer was caught on video violently taking down a citizen (2017). The police have had an extensive
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Looking back on my eleven years of being a Memphis police officer‚ there has been several times in which I have been faced with an ethical dilemma. A police officer can encounter these types dilemmas on a daily basis. I remember one of the first ethical issues I faced‚ was during my probationary phase. We had been dispatched to a one car accident. The dispatcher advised the complaint was a motorist who observed a vehicle severe off the road hit a guardrail and split a pole. My partner who had relinquished
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Law Enforcements Cross The Line “It begins with a relatively minor incident: A traffic stop. A burglary. A disturbance. Police arrive and tensions escalate. It ends with an unarmed black man shot dead” (Somashekhar). Already a total of‚”896 people shot dead by police this year” ("Investigation: Police shootings"). The 31 of which were of a weapon unknown‚ which means‚”could not determine whether a person was armed because of conflicting accounts from witnesses or a lack of information‚” (Somashekhar)
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Police brutality makes it hard to conduct successful patrols within the community. Depending on the person their sense of trust can be destroyed on many different levels‚ the abuse can be physical or psychological that stays with them their entire life. There have been cases far worse than the Rodney King assault often leading to torture‚ or even death that was swept under the rug (Martin‚ 2005‚ p 314). With no proof and only speculation the guilty continue their unauthorized tactics. Today people
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Profiling has long been a subject of contempt when it comes to policing. Immediately following the attacks of 9/11‚ there was a surge in profiling in the United States. One can assume that the uptick in profiling stems from the horrid events that transpired on the day the United States was struck the hardest. In the aftermath of the 9/11 events‚ the predictive analysis tools were used by the intelligence community to assess and or thwart potential threats. This technique was supposed to be used to
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According to Dr. Kevin Gilmartin‚ hypervigilance is when officers feel the physiological and emotional effects of the job. They are very upbeat while working their shifts‚ but when they head to their life outside of the agency‚ they experience the humdrum feeling of police work‚ which causes them to feel extreme physical or mental fatigue‚ a lack of enthusiasm and concern‚ and isolated (The Unspoken‚ 2015). Groups officers belong to‚ inside or outside the organization‚ affect their
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taking a knee‚ linking arms‚ and some not even coming out during the National Anthem? A major protest in the United States recently has been kneeling during the National Anthem. More and more NFL football players join in on taking a knee each week. The main question is why? NFL football players are protesting by taking a knee because of their race‚ political beliefs‚ and police brutality. The majority of the NFL protesters are African American‚ which plays a major role when people’s opinions are on NFL
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