Police brutality is a controversial topic when it comes to social media outlets. For example, the excessive shooting by a police officer caused the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MI. According to Ferguson Police Report, the Ferguson Police department was filled with so much corruption in their practices that the U.S Department of Justice had to fully investigate the Ferguson Police Department on September 4, 2014. Our history always has a way of repeating itself. Police brutality is not a new idea, however, since the “war on drugs” propaganda, there was an increase in minority arrests for drug classifications. Recently, police have been adapted to the use of military equipment and the shoot to kill mentality. Violence is deeply embedded in society’s culture. We use different types of violence to apprehend typical agendas, such as political, social, economic and environmental arraignments. Violence can be expressed through a variety of ways, for example, certain phrases, attitudes, structures or systems. Violence will cause a physical, psychological,
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The war on drugs was a campaign propaganda promoted by President Nixon during 1971 to ban the increasing use of cocaine and crack. They introduced the term of “crack babies” which are babies born addicted to crack, to rally up supporters through news media targeting poor black mothers. The laws that were created were more serious for crack users than for cocaine users, crack is cheaper than cocaine so it more accessible for minorities. According to Hannah Cooper, the war on drugs campaign was a complete fail because it did not reduce drug usage but it did create the opportunity for police to increase patrols, harassment and brutality. The police were protected by politics and their own discretion that gives them the power. Police exercised their racism against blacks through beatings and abused and
The war on drugs was a campaign propaganda promoted by President Nixon during 1971 to ban the increasing use of cocaine and crack. They introduced the term of “crack babies” which are babies born addicted to crack, to rally up supporters through news media targeting poor black mothers. The laws that were created were more serious for crack users than for cocaine users, crack is cheaper than cocaine so it more accessible for minorities. According to Hannah Cooper, the war on drugs campaign was a complete fail because it did not reduce drug usage but it did create the opportunity for police to increase patrols, harassment and brutality. The police were protected by politics and their own discretion that gives them the power. Police exercised their racism against blacks through beatings and abused and