APS ISP: Police Brutality
In law class, we learn that the police are there to act as the enforcers of the laws in our criminal code. They are the knights of our current day society, tasked with the job of protecting the citizens within our community and upholding the values of our legal system. We entrust them with the job of looking out for our well being and keeping us safe, and to do this they expect us to listen and obey their instructions knowing that it is for our benefit. To protect the public and uphold the values of our society, it is an officer’s job to find and arrest those who break the law so that they may be put in front of a judge and tried for there crime against society, but sometimes the perpetrator may not be willing to …show more content…
And this is widely because of the connection between social institutions and the corruption with in the supposed protectors of our society. This is a very important issue because it affects all of us. It removes our faith in the officers who are out there to protect us. The purpose of this report is to inform about the connection between social institutions and police brutality, namely the effectiveness of social institutions at addressing situations of police brutality. Social institutions are established sets of norms and subsystems that support each society’s survival and prosperity. Different social institutions have different tasks and responsibilities. That contribute to a societies overall functionality and efficiency, increasing the structural integrity of a society and reducing chaos. All though societies are slightly different in the division of these responsibilities they all end up with the same 5 important social institutions; family, religious, educational, economic, and political institutions. It will mainly be focused on the United States of America due to all of the recent instances of police misconduct that has been publicized as well as the vast availability of …show more content…
The latest set of statistics was taken in 2010, that year 6613 officers in the US were involved in cases of misconduct. Of those 6600 officers, 23.8% were cases of excessive force. That means that almost ¼ or over 1500 officers involved in misconduct accusations were for brutalizing a victim by using excessive force. Just by taking a quick glance at this graph you can see that something is wrong. These officers of the peace are to be protecting us and so many of them are doing the exact opposite of their job and hurting the citizens they took an oath to protect. Of the total 1575 officers involved in excessive force reports, 56.9% were involved in cases of physical abuse including closed fist strikes, throws, choking and baton strikes as well as other physical assaults. The 2010 survey also stated that 14.7% of the police brutality cases were firearm- related. Taser related cases accounted for 10.6% of cases. The other 18% were related to other kinds of excessive force. Another problem within the cover of police brutality is the racism aspect and the fact that police brutality is often has an underlying aspect of discrimination. Where all recently been made aware of the atrocities that have taken place in Ferguson, Missouri. For those who do not know, I am talking about Mike “Michael” Brown. Mr. brown was shot 12 times in the chest on august 9th, 2014. The altercation
In law class, we learn that the police are there to act as the enforcers of the laws in our criminal code. They are the knights of our current day society, tasked with the job of protecting the citizens within our community and upholding the values of our legal system. We entrust them with the job of looking out for our well being and keeping us safe, and to do this they expect us to listen and obey their instructions knowing that it is for our benefit. To protect the public and uphold the values of our society, it is an officer’s job to find and arrest those who break the law so that they may be put in front of a judge and tried for there crime against society, but sometimes the perpetrator may not be willing to …show more content…
And this is widely because of the connection between social institutions and the corruption with in the supposed protectors of our society. This is a very important issue because it affects all of us. It removes our faith in the officers who are out there to protect us. The purpose of this report is to inform about the connection between social institutions and police brutality, namely the effectiveness of social institutions at addressing situations of police brutality. Social institutions are established sets of norms and subsystems that support each society’s survival and prosperity. Different social institutions have different tasks and responsibilities. That contribute to a societies overall functionality and efficiency, increasing the structural integrity of a society and reducing chaos. All though societies are slightly different in the division of these responsibilities they all end up with the same 5 important social institutions; family, religious, educational, economic, and political institutions. It will mainly be focused on the United States of America due to all of the recent instances of police misconduct that has been publicized as well as the vast availability of …show more content…
The latest set of statistics was taken in 2010, that year 6613 officers in the US were involved in cases of misconduct. Of those 6600 officers, 23.8% were cases of excessive force. That means that almost ¼ or over 1500 officers involved in misconduct accusations were for brutalizing a victim by using excessive force. Just by taking a quick glance at this graph you can see that something is wrong. These officers of the peace are to be protecting us and so many of them are doing the exact opposite of their job and hurting the citizens they took an oath to protect. Of the total 1575 officers involved in excessive force reports, 56.9% were involved in cases of physical abuse including closed fist strikes, throws, choking and baton strikes as well as other physical assaults. The 2010 survey also stated that 14.7% of the police brutality cases were firearm- related. Taser related cases accounted for 10.6% of cases. The other 18% were related to other kinds of excessive force. Another problem within the cover of police brutality is the racism aspect and the fact that police brutality is often has an underlying aspect of discrimination. Where all recently been made aware of the atrocities that have taken place in Ferguson, Missouri. For those who do not know, I am talking about Mike “Michael” Brown. Mr. brown was shot 12 times in the chest on august 9th, 2014. The altercation