issue I have chosen is police brutality. Police brutality has been and still is a big problem in America. But it didn’t just start in the past few years, the term police brutality started in 1872, fast forward to 2017 police brutally have killed 1,147 people and black people were 26% of those killed. There has been a lot of controversy with people expressing that police brutality has a lot to do with the color of someone's skin and what it represents. Some people think that police are more threatened
In the United States there has been a lot of cases of police brutality, but most of them seem to be because of the same reason, race. Discrimination is a big factor of police brutality in the US, just this march there was a case in Los Angeles, California, involving an afro American. The name of the victim is Rodney king, Rodney was involved in a high speed car chase, the police eventually stopped him and ordered him to get out of the vehicle, after he came out he seemed to have taken a step forward
Police abuse remains one of the most serious human rights violations in the United States. Over the past decade, police have acted out in ways that have made people wonder "are our officers of the law really doing their job?" Unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal choking and rough treatment have all contributed to the ever-present problem of police brutality in America. The fact of the matter is that most of these incidents go unreported or unnoticed. Through research, we seek to identify
In this article, Marica Bianco talks about how the law enables the police force to abuse black women. Most of the time when you hear about police brutality and race, the narrative usually involves black men. However, there are police brutalities towards black women that are being kept hidden or ignored completely. Police brutality ranging from being beaten, racially profiled and sexual assaulted. Her article is reinforced with a report from a woman who was given a vaginal cavity search despite the
effect of police brutality on females in the African American community and how they are portrayed in the media. Therefore, I chose to create a column in People magazine called ‘Females Of Equality’, where I interview several young females of the African American culture on their response to the police brutality that is occurring
among police officers that defines their primary duty as a cop. What once was a powerful notion, has lost its meaning through time. Instead, its reputation is now riddled with cases involving what is known as police brutality. Police brutality has become the way many in the U.S. learn about problems in cities with intense inequality. Rather than the media playing its investigative role and identifying deeper reasons for social unrest and protests, the media has run with the police brutality news
Police Brutality Each day every eight hours a cop kills an American citizen. Police brutality is the use of excessive and unnecessary force by police dealing with civilians. Police Brutality happens everyday and in many cases the “cops” get away with this type of action. Cops say the they only use force when they feel threaten. Police Brutality gives police the advantage to get away with ruthless actions because of this over thousands of people are brutally injured or killed by police. “African
01/30/2018 Police Brutality Police is the civil force of local government responsible for the prevention and detection of crime in local communities, Brutality is savage physical violence. By definition these two words are very opposing to each other. Police officers are supposed to protect and serve the people, not to use brutality on the people by abusing their power. Many of the times, the Police uses savage, and brutal force which is not necessary. Personally, I am against police brutality because
There is not enough being done about police brutality in today's world. Police officers aren't being punished enough for their mistakes and therefore aren't trying to better themselves as much. According to a Washington Post analysis, at least 385 people were killed by police nationwide during the first five months of 2015, which is more than twice the amount of police shootings counted by the government in the last ten years. Clearly, that number is extremely underreported. Of the 385 deaths that
Vince Hill D. Zlotziver ERWC 12 December 2015 Police Brutality For many years one of the worlds biggest issues has been police brutality. It is one the most controversial cases that consistently shows up in the news. Whether we agree or not there is a point where it is no longer considered necessary force. Police officers are often faced with many life threatening situations and are forced to act with quick reflexes no matter the outcome. Although, with this immense amount of power, comes a lot of