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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that I chose the topic on police brutality was that it is a serious problem that is still happening nowadays. Police brutality has been happening for many years and still people have not done anything to help stop police brutality. Some police officers take advantage of their power which can lead to injuries and even death at times. Police brutality is a serious problem because many people of diverse ethnicities have gone through a type of police brutality. Police brutality can be considered many different
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results of police brutality and how racial profiling and racism is closely tied with it. This dissertation also tests the arguments that racism is non-existent in the present day. By researching further into these topics‚ information was collected and presents the Michael Brown (Ferguson) case as a major reason why these issues need to be addressed and fixed once and for all. Although we may think racism has slightly decreased within the past few decades‚ police brutality
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Police Brutality or Legitimate Police Force? In the “Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement‚” retired police officer and law enforcement author Vincent Henry defines the term police brutality as the “excessive‚ illegitimate‚ and/or illegal use of force by a police officer or a group of police officers upon one or more civilians.” Henry explains how police brutality is a complex issue in today’s society‚ and in order to understand it‚ one must be able to differentiate legitimate and illegitimate use of
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Police Brutality in America The Police Department was established to control order and promote good conduct for the civilians in their community. Since the beginning‚ the police department has been scrutinizing for taking the law into their own hand to restore order. In most cases the individuals affected by brutality is the minorities. Even though the people are happy with the police present in their community‚ one incident can change the way the community feels towards the Police. Consequently
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Police Brutality in NYC Police brutality is the use of excessive physical force‚ including beating citizens with hands or batons‚ or using guns‚ and even lethal weapons. For the vast majority of citizens‚ this is something they never have experienced. Many police officers go their entire careers without ever having to draw their weapon or even engage in a serious physical confrontation in order to protect themselves or the public from an offender. A very small percentage of law enforcement
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My thesis police brutality is a result of structural racism that is cohesively entwined with social conflict theory‚ Laissez Faire racism and institutional racism and consequently stereotyping. In this paper I will discuss the validity and the long term effect of police brutality within the African- American community. Concluding with my hypothesis on a solution that may lessen the chance of police brutality within the African American Community. Police brutality is overstepping the use of force
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today in the United States‚ would be police brutality. Police brutality can be viewed as the deliberate use of exaggerated force by a police officer‚ which oftentimes results in bloodshed‚ bruises‚ broken bones‚ disfigurement and lately‚ in death. The fact of the matter is that most of these incidents are either “swept under the rug” or covered up. There is and have always been a blatant impunity and little to
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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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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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