Police are hired to do two things, keep citizens safe and enforce the law. While doing so, some police officers take advantage of certain situations. For example, a African American man by the name of Eric Garner was illegally distributing cigarettes in New York, he was brutally choked and told the officers “I cant Breathe” but they ignored him and kept on. I will be referring to our book by Taibbi and two online sources found in the Mabee Library database, “Broken Policing” and “Protecting Urban Health and Safety”. All three of these sources are about police brutality and Eric Garner's case. Police should make us feel safe, we should be on the same team. But in all reality we feel threatened and uneasy when we encountering them.
The “broken Window” theory was founded by James Q Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, they used this technique to bust people in troubled neighborhoods for small offences. There reasoning was if they cut down on the smaller offences, the bigger ones will decrease as well. They looked at larger offences such as robbery, rape, and murder as the “finish line” so if they focused on the smaller ones more it would be a chain reaction. But, what people didn't realize is when the police played by the “broken window” theory it made them make prejudicial judgements, making a much bigger problem than they had …show more content…
Taibbi's book is about Eric Garner and what he went through on the streets of New York. He had witnesses and family member to back his case up, this was a hate crime directed towards a black male. Police brutality is a serious matter, proven in this book. We should see police officers as our guardians against the real evil like rapist, murderer, and terrorist. Instead we have NYPD assaulting a man for selling untaxed cigarettes, that is what's wrong with our country and we need to raise awareness to this issue so we can all get along and live our lives in peace. Less hate more
The “broken Window” theory was founded by James Q Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, they used this technique to bust people in troubled neighborhoods for small offences. There reasoning was if they cut down on the smaller offences, the bigger ones will decrease as well. They looked at larger offences such as robbery, rape, and murder as the “finish line” so if they focused on the smaller ones more it would be a chain reaction. But, what people didn't realize is when the police played by the “broken window” theory it made them make prejudicial judgements, making a much bigger problem than they had …show more content…
Taibbi's book is about Eric Garner and what he went through on the streets of New York. He had witnesses and family member to back his case up, this was a hate crime directed towards a black male. Police brutality is a serious matter, proven in this book. We should see police officers as our guardians against the real evil like rapist, murderer, and terrorist. Instead we have NYPD assaulting a man for selling untaxed cigarettes, that is what's wrong with our country and we need to raise awareness to this issue so we can all get along and live our lives in peace. Less hate more