Throughout the years, the US has faced cases of police brutality. It’s a controversial topic within many different communities all over. Police brutality gives law enforcement a negative image prior to many departments not giving proper training in nonviolent situations, unreasonable use of force, minorities are unfairly targeted, and police officers getting away with misconduct. To begin with many officers in law enforcement are not receiving the proper training. For instance every officer in the force or joining the force more like it is supposed to do the Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) within 40 hours curriculum. However the CIT program is not being complied because its claim to be not mandatory which contradicts the statement
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Since everyone cannot be trained, only a few officers can handle crisis issues, when they should make it mandatory for CIT and mental health training. These facts are quite extreme because it doesn’t make any sense to have an officer go to a crime sense if they are not mental stable enough to do so or handle a crisis situation. Whats the sense of having an officer trying to maintain a situation when they do not even know what they are doing prior to lack of training. Secondly would be unreasonable use of force that occurs everyday. A prime factor would be the Sandra Bland case. Bland who was a 28 year old women at the time faced police brutality. Bland was driving about 4:30pm on July 10th when she was pulled over for failing to signal a lane change. Bland questioned why she was stopped while smoking her cigarette. The officer mention why she was pulled over and asked her to step out the vehicle, which was unnecessary because there wasn’t any suspicious activity going on. The officer then tells her she is arrested and Bland ask what is the charge, the officer then gets aggressive and pulls out his Taser and yells “I will light you up.” Bland then gets out the vehicle and was using vague language however no treats was made to the officer, the …show more content…
For starters many people would say the officers are just going their jobs when that’s not necessarily true. If you happen to look at the amount of African Americans and Latinos in prison you would be rather quite shocked. Police officers nowadays are racial profiling many. Unfortunately this is a huge problem for African Americans and Latinos because if a officer is racial profiling it’s a ninety percent chance you will be going to jail. Many officers are racist and still get through the academy with flying colors which is a problem for the people they are racist towards. “From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled from roughly 500,000 to 2.3 million people.” In the prison system there is fifty-eight percent of African American and Latinos incarcerated. Lets not forget the fact that police officers are getting away with misconduct when they should be arrested themselves and thrown in jail. For Instance nine out of eleven cops are beating, robbing, and killing people. Now you even have a list of good cops who are lying to protect the bad cops. That’s the exact reason why the public eye has nothing but contempt, mistrust and out right hatred for them. Police officers are suppose ti be trained to handle the law, not abuse it in any shape or form. Just because an officer is not having the best day doesn’t give them the right to brutalize
Since everyone cannot be trained, only a few officers can handle crisis issues, when they should make it mandatory for CIT and mental health training. These facts are quite extreme because it doesn’t make any sense to have an officer go to a crime sense if they are not mental stable enough to do so or handle a crisis situation. Whats the sense of having an officer trying to maintain a situation when they do not even know what they are doing prior to lack of training. Secondly would be unreasonable use of force that occurs everyday. A prime factor would be the Sandra Bland case. Bland who was a 28 year old women at the time faced police brutality. Bland was driving about 4:30pm on July 10th when she was pulled over for failing to signal a lane change. Bland questioned why she was stopped while smoking her cigarette. The officer mention why she was pulled over and asked her to step out the vehicle, which was unnecessary because there wasn’t any suspicious activity going on. The officer then tells her she is arrested and Bland ask what is the charge, the officer then gets aggressive and pulls out his Taser and yells “I will light you up.” Bland then gets out the vehicle and was using vague language however no treats was made to the officer, the …show more content…
For starters many people would say the officers are just going their jobs when that’s not necessarily true. If you happen to look at the amount of African Americans and Latinos in prison you would be rather quite shocked. Police officers nowadays are racial profiling many. Unfortunately this is a huge problem for African Americans and Latinos because if a officer is racial profiling it’s a ninety percent chance you will be going to jail. Many officers are racist and still get through the academy with flying colors which is a problem for the people they are racist towards. “From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled from roughly 500,000 to 2.3 million people.” In the prison system there is fifty-eight percent of African American and Latinos incarcerated. Lets not forget the fact that police officers are getting away with misconduct when they should be arrested themselves and thrown in jail. For Instance nine out of eleven cops are beating, robbing, and killing people. Now you even have a list of good cops who are lying to protect the bad cops. That’s the exact reason why the public eye has nothing but contempt, mistrust and out right hatred for them. Police officers are suppose ti be trained to handle the law, not abuse it in any shape or form. Just because an officer is not having the best day doesn’t give them the right to brutalize