Police brutality is a civil rights violation that occurs as a result of the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. “Excessive use of force” means a force well beyond what would be necessary by law enforcement officers in order to handle a situation and is a violation of a person’s rights. The use of excessive force is also a direct violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U. S. Constitution regarding cruelty and protection of the laws. There are several ways police brutality can be present. The most obvious practice of police brutality takes place in a physical form. Police officers can use nerve gas, batons, pepper spray, Tasers, and guns in order to physically intimidate or even intentionally
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These researches examine the traditional predictions as well as the interactive and bias mentality of that officer (qtd. in Law enforcement restraint in the use of deadly force). Of all the different forms mention, racial profiling is perhaps the one form that police officers use in order to subject a citizen to all the others that are mention. Racial profiling can happen to any person, group or agency is the suspicion of people based on their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender or fixed characteristics, and not so much on any evidence that is created by suspicious behavior. Racial profiling usually led to some type of negative action that can have devastating consequences which may involve death, especially when done by those in authority such as police officers who use an individual’s race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or national origin as a factor in deciding whom to investigate, arrest or detain with a lack of evidence of a specific crime or criminal behavior. Police officers are predisposed to acting aggressively toward African American men. Policemen are a part of the law enforcement in the government and they play an important role in our criminal …show more content…
Racial profiling of African Americans dates all the way back to slavery to at least the 1700s for African Americans when many southern states had slave squads in which white men policed and hunted them down if they escaped. If they were free African Americans they had to show freedom papers or passes to prove they had gained their freedom and had permission to leave the plantation. These so called slave squads subjected African Americans to harassment, whippings and interrogations and all kinds of demeaning physical punishment that sometimes led to death. Unlike modern-day racial profiling, an African American’s skin color, not their actions, made them a victim to prejudiced treatment from those in authority, namely the white race. Today, African American men, especially young African American boys are afflicted with some of the most dangerous stereotypes in the world partly as a result of the illegal use drugs and an increase in criminal activity and violence and partly because they have a black face. According to statistics one in every African American male will go to prison at some point in their life as opposed to one in every seventeen white males. Nearly one third of African American men between the ages of eighteen and thirty remain under some form of custody of
These researches examine the traditional predictions as well as the interactive and bias mentality of that officer (qtd. in Law enforcement restraint in the use of deadly force). Of all the different forms mention, racial profiling is perhaps the one form that police officers use in order to subject a citizen to all the others that are mention. Racial profiling can happen to any person, group or agency is the suspicion of people based on their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender or fixed characteristics, and not so much on any evidence that is created by suspicious behavior. Racial profiling usually led to some type of negative action that can have devastating consequences which may involve death, especially when done by those in authority such as police officers who use an individual’s race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or national origin as a factor in deciding whom to investigate, arrest or detain with a lack of evidence of a specific crime or criminal behavior. Police officers are predisposed to acting aggressively toward African American men. Policemen are a part of the law enforcement in the government and they play an important role in our criminal …show more content…
Racial profiling of African Americans dates all the way back to slavery to at least the 1700s for African Americans when many southern states had slave squads in which white men policed and hunted them down if they escaped. If they were free African Americans they had to show freedom papers or passes to prove they had gained their freedom and had permission to leave the plantation. These so called slave squads subjected African Americans to harassment, whippings and interrogations and all kinds of demeaning physical punishment that sometimes led to death. Unlike modern-day racial profiling, an African American’s skin color, not their actions, made them a victim to prejudiced treatment from those in authority, namely the white race. Today, African American men, especially young African American boys are afflicted with some of the most dangerous stereotypes in the world partly as a result of the illegal use drugs and an increase in criminal activity and violence and partly because they have a black face. According to statistics one in every African American male will go to prison at some point in their life as opposed to one in every seventeen white males. Nearly one third of African American men between the ages of eighteen and thirty remain under some form of custody of