While police brutality is only recently taking the media by storm‚ it has been a large scale issue in the United States for over one hundred years leading to various riots‚ petitions‚ and presidential panels. In 1938 at the time of a great riot regarding police brutality the National Negro Congress stated “Our lives‚ our homes‚ our liberties each day are made less secure because of unrestrained and unpunished police brutality” in their petition against police brutality (Contemporary Police Brutality
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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 departments do things differently from one another. Each of them have their own policing style. A policing style is a collection of the police department’s methods‚ routines‚ and processes (Jihong & Hassel‚ 2005). The department’s policing style serves as a reflection of the department’s culture and affects all aspects of police work in that community. In 1968‚ social and political scientist James Q. Wilson conducted a study on police departmental styles (Jihong & Hassel‚ 2005). He studied
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The police department is important to our community. There are several departments and agencies designed to keep the people safe from drugs‚ homicide‚ armed robbery‚ rape‚ hate crimes‚ etc. There are various acts of violence that take place in America but the police are practicing safety precautions to keep our streets safe. In this paper‚ I will be addressing the various types of police agencies at local‚ state‚ and federal levels. I also will be addressing the roles and functions of police organizations
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INTRODUCTION For as long as policing has existed in America‚ there has been misconduct and corruption associated with any given policing agency. Police officer malfeasance can range from minor cases of misconduct to the downright criminal acts that are considered to be corruption. It is important to state here that not all police officers are guilty of misconduct and/or corruption‚ but like everything in our media-based society‚ the ?bad? cops are of much more interest and therefore are what this
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The police officer also known as law enforcement officer participate in an essential part in communities throughout the United States. Police officers commonly undergo a relentless amount of training to help them perform their duties as a police officer. The police officer patrols in the assigned area and concentrate on maintaining public order‚ protecting citizens and property‚ also preventing and detecting crimes‚ and enforcing laws within the community. Working as a police officer requires having
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Police brutality has been one of the major issues in America for decades and should be resolved immediately. Statistics say that In May of 2015‚ it has been analyzed the 385 fatal police shootings in the United States have occurred so far in 2015. The number‚ which came out to two officer-involved shooting deaths per day‚ was more than twice the rate that the government had recorded over the past decade. That same report found blacks to be killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities
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The way that the police uses excessive force with any minority class men is considered brutality disregarding their ethnicity or economic status. Police brutality has a dramatic change on how the community looks at the law enforcers. Nobody will look at policemen the same way after all the accusations and prove that shows how they are abusive of the power granted to them by the government. Every human‚ regardless of ethnicity‚ the color of skin‚ being a minority‚ and having legal status in the country
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with Sgt. Jeffery I interviewed Sergeant Craig Jeffery who is a police officer for the Saint Louis County. He is assigned to the Division of Patrol as a watch supervisor in the North County Precinct. He is responsible for supervising police patrol officers who carry out day to day routine crime suppression and investigates complaints. Jeffrey started his career as a patrol officer with the St. Louis Police County Department in 1991‚ in which He was assigned as a patrolman in the
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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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