The recent phenomena in regards to police actions and duty is getting out of hand. Authorities are not performing their job as required. To be precise, police officers continue to abuse their given authority by acting in a brutal manner in order to control detained suspects. Many people have been victimized because of campus police and other high authorities’ senseless attitudes on how to handle the law. What citizens have to realize is that racial profiling does happen to innocent people who are mostly targeted or pursued because of their race or sometimes even because of their religion or even color. Citizens should be kept safe and seek help from police officers, without fear or becoming a victim of police brutality. These things can also
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In most police brutality cases, forces are abusing their supremacies, they aren’t trying to resolve the matter but they are trying to show their superiority in front of civilians. Scott Jaschik, the author of the article “Incident at Yale Sets off a New Debate on Racial Profiling”, published on the Inside Higher Ed website on January of 2015, asserts, “A black student at Yale is detained on Yale’s campus being harassed/interrogated with a gun pointed at him and was detained by campus police -- and his father, a New York Times columnist, goes public, adding to the debate over whether black people are treated fairly by campus police.” In addition to this strident approach, a spokeswoman for Yale’s police department said, “Students in one of Yale's residential colleges -- which has experienced burglaries in the last week -- reported an individual had been entering rooms under false pretenses. Students described the suspect as a tall African-American male, college-aged and wearing a black jacket. That description was sent to campus police, the spokeswoman said, and was the reason the student was detained.” Nevertheless, just because a tall African-American college-aged student was wearing a black jacket in the evening while coming out of the library, campus police officers have absolutely no right to point a gun at him the minute the officer tells …show more content…
It’s especially hard for victims who have been racially profiled against because of the memory of their terrible experience. Likewise Kira Brekke, the author of this specific article, “Black Professor Speaks out about Being Racially Profiled near Campus”, published in the Huffington Post in December of 2015 describes the incident that had taken place with an assistant professor from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Professor Steve Locke comes forward and speaks on his story about how he was racially profiled. He states how a police car followed him and pulled him over. When the police officer came up to him, along with a few other officers who had showed up to the scene, Locke was detained and told that “he matched the description of a robbery suspect” even though he made it clear he was on his lunch break and had his faculty ID displayed around his neck. Locke stated in his brief interview with the Huffington Post, “I am 52 years old. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan,” he explained to Huff Post Live. “A lot of my life has been organized around avoiding interactions with the police, but whenever I encounter the police, I understand that I’m encountering them differently than other citizens.” Incidents like this sometimes have most citizens wondering if it is okay for police to check you if they “think” you are committing a crime? Well there have been mixed answers
In most police brutality cases, forces are abusing their supremacies, they aren’t trying to resolve the matter but they are trying to show their superiority in front of civilians. Scott Jaschik, the author of the article “Incident at Yale Sets off a New Debate on Racial Profiling”, published on the Inside Higher Ed website on January of 2015, asserts, “A black student at Yale is detained on Yale’s campus being harassed/interrogated with a gun pointed at him and was detained by campus police -- and his father, a New York Times columnist, goes public, adding to the debate over whether black people are treated fairly by campus police.” In addition to this strident approach, a spokeswoman for Yale’s police department said, “Students in one of Yale's residential colleges -- which has experienced burglaries in the last week -- reported an individual had been entering rooms under false pretenses. Students described the suspect as a tall African-American male, college-aged and wearing a black jacket. That description was sent to campus police, the spokeswoman said, and was the reason the student was detained.” Nevertheless, just because a tall African-American college-aged student was wearing a black jacket in the evening while coming out of the library, campus police officers have absolutely no right to point a gun at him the minute the officer tells …show more content…
It’s especially hard for victims who have been racially profiled against because of the memory of their terrible experience. Likewise Kira Brekke, the author of this specific article, “Black Professor Speaks out about Being Racially Profiled near Campus”, published in the Huffington Post in December of 2015 describes the incident that had taken place with an assistant professor from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Professor Steve Locke comes forward and speaks on his story about how he was racially profiled. He states how a police car followed him and pulled him over. When the police officer came up to him, along with a few other officers who had showed up to the scene, Locke was detained and told that “he matched the description of a robbery suspect” even though he made it clear he was on his lunch break and had his faculty ID displayed around his neck. Locke stated in his brief interview with the Huffington Post, “I am 52 years old. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan,” he explained to Huff Post Live. “A lot of my life has been organized around avoiding interactions with the police, but whenever I encounter the police, I understand that I’m encountering them differently than other citizens.” Incidents like this sometimes have most citizens wondering if it is okay for police to check you if they “think” you are committing a crime? Well there have been mixed answers