POLICE BRUTALITY 2Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive force either physical or verbal assault during police procedures. Police brutality started many years ago and it has started to become a world wide issue again. Please brutality was used in the old days so they could get answers from the accused, back then they did not have a good justice system. People were scared of the officers because as soon as they would show their presence everyone would leave the place to not be questioned or arrested. Everyone was used to police brutality that it was not coming when it would happen but over the years when it started becoming …show more content…
Because of enforcing the rules police brutality went down and it had been like that for several years but he has once again started. The reason it had went down was because we all have a rights and the people started defending themselves not in a violent way but in a way that would enforce their rights. Their have been so many cases of police brutality and it was usually because some officers believe that they are allowed to use brutality because they know they will get away with it. Back in 1963 there was a case of a protist run by African-American and a police officer brutally injured the leader of the protest that eventually led him to his death. Police paternity is not only used against African-American people it is also used against others who have a different race ethnicity. “A study made by Albert J. Reiss Jr. in three large cities indicate that police brutality is “far from rare,” and that the most likely victim is a lower-class men of either race. There had been through the courts in the streets a dreary procession of citizens with broken heads and bruised bodies against few of whom was violence needed to affect an arrest. Many of them have done nothing to deserve an arrest. Any majority of such cases no complaint was made. If the victim would have complained their charges would have generally been dismissed. “The police are practically above the law.” This statement