Police brutality has been an issue that as continued to grow and progress over the last several years. What is police brutality? According to Lindsey Boggess she defined it as the unlawful use of physical force by officers in the performance of their lawful duties. In this case it often involves with physical pain but, it can even be shown through through verbal aggression. Abusive language is not only aggressive but, often offensive, including the use of insults, degrading language, and racially based epithets (Boggess 113). An example Boggess gives in the article here referres back to 1991 where there was a videotape of a Los Angles police officer beating Rodney King. Police brutality is a very serious matter to the point where it can lead
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According to Boggess article there are 550 cases of deadly force per year and one third of those are considered unjustified. Boggess even mentioned that there are officers that go through an entire career without ever discharging their weapon. Police are justified in using deadly force when a suspect is trying to escape or a threat to officers and people in the community. In cases where police deadly force is unjustified it cause the community to react intensively and such actions by police can cause relationships between the people and the police community (Boggess 115).
What are the potential causes of police brutality? Boggess states in her article that according to research there are three areas which are police subcultures, inherit bias amoung individual officers, and job burnout and cynism. Police subcultures is to help police officers cope feelings of isolation from society which they first experience during there training. The subculture can also cause a mistrust between the people and the police officer bringing a mentality that it’s the people against the officers. …show more content…
Some of the people that support the use of heavy force actually serves as a purpose in society. People believe the use of heavy police force is necessary to help control crime. These people of society believe that police officers are entitled to do anything necessary to control criminal conduct and preserve justice for the greater good. They want as much force as necessary to apprehend all criminal suspects and to help bring quick justice. Heavy police force has a effect on crime. Three main factors come into play and those are certainty of protection, severity of punishment, and celerity of punishment. The heavy force would be deterred from committing crime under the knowledge of that if caught by police, immediate and severe punishment would be inflicted and it prevent citizens not involved in crimes from performing future crimes. (Boggess 122). In 1991 study was and the results were that every time police killings percentages increased then the violent crime percentage happened. On the other hand there are people who are against unjustified force by police because they believe this kind of conduct will have a negative impact on society. According to the article the constitutional premise of the criminal justice system in the United States rests on presumptions of innocent until proven guilty, not innocent until arrested (Boggess 123) Brutality towards
According to Boggess article there are 550 cases of deadly force per year and one third of those are considered unjustified. Boggess even mentioned that there are officers that go through an entire career without ever discharging their weapon. Police are justified in using deadly force when a suspect is trying to escape or a threat to officers and people in the community. In cases where police deadly force is unjustified it cause the community to react intensively and such actions by police can cause relationships between the people and the police community (Boggess 115).
What are the potential causes of police brutality? Boggess states in her article that according to research there are three areas which are police subcultures, inherit bias amoung individual officers, and job burnout and cynism. Police subcultures is to help police officers cope feelings of isolation from society which they first experience during there training. The subculture can also cause a mistrust between the people and the police officer bringing a mentality that it’s the people against the officers. …show more content…
Some of the people that support the use of heavy force actually serves as a purpose in society. People believe the use of heavy police force is necessary to help control crime. These people of society believe that police officers are entitled to do anything necessary to control criminal conduct and preserve justice for the greater good. They want as much force as necessary to apprehend all criminal suspects and to help bring quick justice. Heavy police force has a effect on crime. Three main factors come into play and those are certainty of protection, severity of punishment, and celerity of punishment. The heavy force would be deterred from committing crime under the knowledge of that if caught by police, immediate and severe punishment would be inflicted and it prevent citizens not involved in crimes from performing future crimes. (Boggess 122). In 1991 study was and the results were that every time police killings percentages increased then the violent crime percentage happened. On the other hand there are people who are against unjustified force by police because they believe this kind of conduct will have a negative impact on society. According to the article the constitutional premise of the criminal justice system in the United States rests on presumptions of innocent until proven guilty, not innocent until arrested (Boggess 123) Brutality towards