Since the beginning and the ending of slavery, police brutality has been strongly incorporated in the African American communities. The beatings, shootings, and the result of rioting has been nothing new against African Americans. The term “police brutality” was first used in America as early as 1872 when the Chicago Tribune reported on the beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station. Police brutality can often be defined as the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. If one thinks of the term “police brutality” in relating to African Americans, what may come to mind is names such as “Rodney King”, “Eric Garner”, “Sandra Bland”, “Freddie Gray”. Etc. All of these people were
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The rapid growth in prisons and jails with African American people in the United States is five times as high that it has been since 1972, which excels all other countries. African American men in their twenties in terms of age with going to prison, is a predictable experience. The war on drugs is due highly to the mass incarceration of blacks. The drugs are not brought to America simply by black men though. In my opinion, foreigners supply the drugs to America and black people take that advantage as an opportunity to make money; since the standards of a job is so high or the minimum wage is low nowadays to get paid decent. So when the blacks do take that advantage and sell the drugs to supply on the streets to people who fiend for it, they get caught by police because they think that they are hurting the people on it. Police officers want to eliminate drug trafficking so of course they are going to target the ones who is selling it to the streets. The use of police brutality against the sellers can be targeted as high because of the hatred probably of them. The racism with cops and citizens specifically non colored officers with colored people, can be seen as the cops wanting to either harmfully eliminating them by imprisoning them or permanently eliminating them by killing them. 60 percent of offenders imprisoned for drug charges in 1998 were black. Less income African American people tend to live in economically segregated neighborhoods. The status of wealth obtains where you are more likely to live at. People who live in lower class neighborhoods are most likely to commit crimes. Police officers are most likely to find acts of crime being made in a lower class than high class neighborhoods. Acts of crime in lower class African American communities targets the African American person more higher to be
The rapid growth in prisons and jails with African American people in the United States is five times as high that it has been since 1972, which excels all other countries. African American men in their twenties in terms of age with going to prison, is a predictable experience. The war on drugs is due highly to the mass incarceration of blacks. The drugs are not brought to America simply by black men though. In my opinion, foreigners supply the drugs to America and black people take that advantage as an opportunity to make money; since the standards of a job is so high or the minimum wage is low nowadays to get paid decent. So when the blacks do take that advantage and sell the drugs to supply on the streets to people who fiend for it, they get caught by police because they think that they are hurting the people on it. Police officers want to eliminate drug trafficking so of course they are going to target the ones who is selling it to the streets. The use of police brutality against the sellers can be targeted as high because of the hatred probably of them. The racism with cops and citizens specifically non colored officers with colored people, can be seen as the cops wanting to either harmfully eliminating them by imprisoning them or permanently eliminating them by killing them. 60 percent of offenders imprisoned for drug charges in 1998 were black. Less income African American people tend to live in economically segregated neighborhoods. The status of wealth obtains where you are more likely to live at. People who live in lower class neighborhoods are most likely to commit crimes. Police officers are most likely to find acts of crime being made in a lower class than high class neighborhoods. Acts of crime in lower class African American communities targets the African American person more higher to be