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    road and a police officer pulls up right behind them. Not many of them would say that they feel safe or comfortable with the presence of an officer. They are also very confused why they were just pulled over. This happens way to often in the United States and the group of friends are not alone. Shockingly‚ The United states department of Justice states that officers fail to articulate sufficient justification nearly 75% of stops. We can attribute this one example to something called Police Accountability

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    the 1920s and 1930s. Police departments continued to move towards a more professional model as a result of various reform efforts. During the decades of the 1920s and 1930s two significant events occurred that helped orchestrate a move towards law enforcement. Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution often called the Volstead Act and the Great Depression which lead to a massive crime wave (Gaines & Kappeler‚ 2008‚ p. 195). Prior to t Volstead Act police officers allowed public

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    Police Misconduct Response I would define police brutality as something that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using the amount of force with regards to a subject that is more than necessary. By excessive force‚ I mean that the officer use more than the amount of force to get the subject under control. I feel that police brutality happens when an officer has the subject under control and then might hit the subject with a black stick‚ or use the taser gun on the subject

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    Minority Police Brutality in Major Cities of the United States Since the first state-sponsored police forces in the U.S. racial discrimination in police forces has been a characteristic of the American landscape. Racial profiling and police brutality have their roots in enforcement of slave codes‚ black codes‚ and Jim Crow Segregation laws. We Charge Genocide‚ a petition submitted to the UN by the Civil Rights Congress in 1951‚ documented thousands of incidents of police violence against African

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    Police Are Not The Problem Every human being is a victim of racism at some point in his or her life. Some do not even know they are victims of it. The epitome of racism these days seems to be in the form of police brutality. It is said that police brutality happens extremely too often in low-income areas as well as medium to high-income areas. According to an Article by the TNO Staff of The New Observer: Far More Whites Killed by Police‚ more whites are actually killed by police than other races

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    mentioned this issue. However‚ this brings a question to mind. How often do police actually draw their firearms in their policing careers? Most of the problem regarding police’s use of excessive force revolves around that fact that numerous officers are using their firearm unjustly. It makes you wonder‚ other than the police shootings that have became well-talked about (like the unfortunate killing of Trayvon Martin)‚ how often do police use their firearms? According to a study published on February 9th‚

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    death. I think about how their day was going before they encounter the police;were they seeing their kids‚ going to work‚ hanging with friends? In each case the situation escalated quickly and unnecessarily. I think about how the officers felt after the shooting took place. Did they feel regret or remorse? Did they wish they did things differently? Those questions trouble me after watching the videos and seeing how the police carry on as if they didn’t take someone’s life. Seeing these news stories

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    Unnecessary Force by Police Sherry Morley ENG/147 September 22‚ 2014 Leslie Adams Abstract There are too many accidental deaths by the police in the United States. Whether it be shooting an unarmed teen‚ putting people in choke holds‚ or just simply beating a man that cannot even get on the floor in a hurry‚ because he is on crutches. There is a big hysteria over all the unarmed shootings‚ such as in Ferguson‚ MO‚ Philadelphia‚ PA‚ and then the using of choke holds. The New York Police Department used

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    Progressive and the actual police report were used to compare both sides of the Michael Brown’s death case due to shooting by police officer Darren Wilson. The comparison is to highlight how different the story is pictured from the mass media to the law enforcement report. The case occurred in Ferguson‚ Missouri on August 9‚ 2014. After reading both sources of information the differences vary in several ways the story telling is done. A difference from the actual police report and the online article

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    One of the most important duties of police officers is to prevent crime from happening. In the light of this objective‚ part of the regular duties of police officers is to go on patrol to improve police visibility. As they patrol the community‚ police officers have the responsibility to stop motor vehicles in case the driver commits a violation of motor vehicle law or in case the driver or his companions engage in suspicious activities. Ordinarily‚ motor vehicle stops are supposed to last a few

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