Livanny Jimenez
Professor Greenfield
English 120 Changes in Training of the Police Heading towards the end of 2016 we should reflect on how many times someone has been killed due to shootings or excessive force being used by the police. Almost every day a new headline has popped up about mostly black males being murdered due to police involved shootings. I believe that these unfair incidents have been cropping up again and again here in the states because of the way that our police force has been trained. Cynthia Lee, a research professor of law at Duke University, noticed the fault in U.S. police training and gave an alternate to the current way of training. Currently, police officers must go through a federally mandated self defense …show more content…
One issue that people have with needing a college education to be recruited is that it limits the opportunity to many people who aren’t as privileged, like the minorities which the police departments already lack. Another argument is that college will not teach the experiences that are learned while working and being trained to become an officer (White and Escobar 4). Either way, White and Escobar believe that future police officer’s expectations of educational levels will keep going up and a college degree will be one of those expectations, I for sure agree with this decision (5). With a college education, officers reap many benefits one of those being, interacting with a diverse student body. While attending college the opportunities to truly understand people who are different from themselves will result in having more patience with others. Also, the job requires complicated skills, like filling out full and accurate reports of crimes scenes that are not taught in hands-on training but can be taught in a classroom environment. Likewise, having a broader knowledge of criminal justice before stepping in to be a police officer is a huge benefit because they will already know how the system works (White and Escobar 4). Therefore taking after other countries where police brutality isn 't a prevalent issue, the U.S. …show more content…
That’s why movements like black lives matter have swept the nation, and some people greatly oppose the movement. Opposers say that the movement is targeting the wrong people, which are police officers, and going as far to say that the movement is enforcing an anti-police state (Fredrikson, “Who is speaking out”). But what the movement is truly trying to get at is the way that anti-blackness has been clearly portrayed in this country. Starting with the fact that the police killed one hundred and two unarmed black men only in 2015, we can see that BLM just wants less aggression from the police towards black people. When it comes to victims like Sandra Bland and Michael Brown and how they were inexcusably killed under police custody for minor violations of traffic, as citizens we must stand for them and let the police know that there is a fault in their system that needs to be
Professor Greenfield
English 120 Changes in Training of the Police Heading towards the end of 2016 we should reflect on how many times someone has been killed due to shootings or excessive force being used by the police. Almost every day a new headline has popped up about mostly black males being murdered due to police involved shootings. I believe that these unfair incidents have been cropping up again and again here in the states because of the way that our police force has been trained. Cynthia Lee, a research professor of law at Duke University, noticed the fault in U.S. police training and gave an alternate to the current way of training. Currently, police officers must go through a federally mandated self defense …show more content…
One issue that people have with needing a college education to be recruited is that it limits the opportunity to many people who aren’t as privileged, like the minorities which the police departments already lack. Another argument is that college will not teach the experiences that are learned while working and being trained to become an officer (White and Escobar 4). Either way, White and Escobar believe that future police officer’s expectations of educational levels will keep going up and a college degree will be one of those expectations, I for sure agree with this decision (5). With a college education, officers reap many benefits one of those being, interacting with a diverse student body. While attending college the opportunities to truly understand people who are different from themselves will result in having more patience with others. Also, the job requires complicated skills, like filling out full and accurate reports of crimes scenes that are not taught in hands-on training but can be taught in a classroom environment. Likewise, having a broader knowledge of criminal justice before stepping in to be a police officer is a huge benefit because they will already know how the system works (White and Escobar 4). Therefore taking after other countries where police brutality isn 't a prevalent issue, the U.S. …show more content…
That’s why movements like black lives matter have swept the nation, and some people greatly oppose the movement. Opposers say that the movement is targeting the wrong people, which are police officers, and going as far to say that the movement is enforcing an anti-police state (Fredrikson, “Who is speaking out”). But what the movement is truly trying to get at is the way that anti-blackness has been clearly portrayed in this country. Starting with the fact that the police killed one hundred and two unarmed black men only in 2015, we can see that BLM just wants less aggression from the police towards black people. When it comes to victims like Sandra Bland and Michael Brown and how they were inexcusably killed under police custody for minor violations of traffic, as citizens we must stand for them and let the police know that there is a fault in their system that needs to be