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Caring for others or parental figures are the essential job for law enforcement and correctional officers. Police officers are confronted with circumstance consistently that obliged them to assume responsibility for individuals who are being taken advantages of. For years women were marked as the parental figure more so than men. From the early 19 century, when women stayed home and care for the children while the men would go out and work. The men were more so the bread winner. However, the…

shot on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, by white police officer, Darren Wilson. Brown was an unarmed man who did commit a small crime, but nothing worth his brutal murder. There are different accounts about what truly happened during this violent encounter. The belief that discrimination was a part of this death led to protests by the black community and violence preceded this. This violence could have been stopped if officer Wilson had just worn a body camera. The black community…

to make sure they sent trained police officers to properly deal with the situation. Two Dallas police officers responded to the call and the body cam video of one of them recorded what happened at the scene. When the officers knock on the door, Shirley answered and walked outside followed by her 38 years old son, Jason Harrison who had a screwdriver in his hand. The police officers asked him to drop the screwdriver; because Jason did not followed the officers’ instructions, he was shoot 5 times,…

issues surrounding the Ferguson case was racially charged. The local issue that I identified in the Berkeley County case was police officer corruption and how secrecy and lack of consequences could negatively…

found that the majority of individuals who have experienced force from police officers felt that those officers handled the situation inappropriately. This is an alarming percentage. A recent case that occurred in Staten Island, NY gained national media attention. In 2014, police stopped Eric Garner and were under the impression that he was guilty of selling untaxed cigarettes. There was a bystander who recorded the officer who tried to arrest Garner. The bystander claimed that he had witnessed…

Police violence has been an issue since the creation of police enforcement, whether the accusations are legitimate or not. The amount of violence has increased which has heightened the need for police body cameras. Body cameras on law enforcement officers will help protect the public against police misconduct and at the same time helping protect police against false accusations of abuse. Police body cameras are a great source of technology, even though there are a few problems, they will overall…

in which they did. Furthermore, if the two white officers had any type of racist attitudes or beliefs regarding African Americans, this may have largely led to them being more quickly to act more violently towards — and eventually kill — Sterling. In today’s society, it seems as though…

of police officers killing African American overtime. Families have stepped up and are committed to make a change on young innocent African Americans being murdered because of racial discrimination. These events that involve the law enforcement who are against African American have made me bias on what my opinions are on situations like these. In my life, I haven’t really haven’t had experiences with the law enforcement but my family has came…

now, we see police officers hurting innocent people. The videos that are shown on the media are very short but has very graphic material. Some of the videos shows the discrimination towards black people. This causes us viewers to interpret it wrong .With this said, this causes riots throughout community causing campaigns such as BlackLivesMatter. With this campaign, we see black people rebelling towards discrimination. That they will take a stand and not let the police officers hurt their…

in 1972 that endeavored to investigate corrupt activities of police officers, detectives and supervisors working within the New York police department. This research revealed different types of corruption within the department they revealed different gambling operations where police officers were being paid off to not report them or arrest them for operating illegal gambling within the city. The police department had officers involved selling and distributing drugs, narcotics and even…