This research paper explores the issue of police brutality against black minorities and how it has not changed much over the years. The references for this paper were found from several articles on the internet. I gave examples of both past and present incident on police brutality. I also presented contributing factors of the violence within our society…
Police brutality is becoming a major problem in today’s society. It has been an ongoing issue throughout the world. As society grows, the existence of police brutality become more of an issue. The issue posed by illegal use of power is ongoing reality for people of a disfavored race or sexual orientation. Police brutality remains as one of the most divisive human rights in the world.…
In the Summer of 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement came to fruition in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a young and unarmed black male. Since then, the movement has demonstrated against other deaths of many black men believed to have been victims of police brutality. Despite the scrutiny behind police practices such as the chokehold and racial profiling, which are both deemed illegal, the police have not changed these practices and instead made them legal under different names such as the “headlock” and the “drug courier profile”. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the 2014 killings of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, the Blue Lives Matter movement was created. Instead…
Parry, Nat. “Is Police Brutality Color-Blind?” Consortiumnews.com 22 Aug. 2014: 13 Oct. 2015 https://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/22/is-police-brutality-color-blind/ A strength of this reference is that not only does it bring up local statistics on police brutality in regards to racial minorities, but it addresses it on a national level, as well. The Consortiumnews.com author includes U.S. federal constitution facts, as well.…
In the article “Racism and Police Brutality in America” by Cassandra Chaney and Ray V. Robertson write about the overuse of power that some law enforcements use on citizens, typically people of color, and more specifically Black men. The findings by Chaney and Robertson were taken from the e National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) to support their article. The article mainly focuses on the death of Rodney King who was a victim of police brutality by the LAPD in 1991 and how that case became the catalyst for other brutality against Black men by law enforcement in the US. The article talks about how Black men with Afrocentric features rather than Eurocentric physical features tend to be the target of police brutality and the victims possibly worse racism. Many Whites believe that Blacks are…
Steven Magee once said, “Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government”. (Magee) There are as much good police officers as there are corrupt ones. There are as many good people in society as there are bad. There is as much good in society as there is bad.…
At the point when a black thinks about a cop what ought to ring a bell is "legend". Cops should be an indication of safety, when a cop comes around a black individual ought to feel comfortable and secured. Although a few years ago it was this way it is no longer true. Present day's cops are seen as individuals that African Americans need to avoid, many black people fear them. Cops are currently manhandling, attacking, and executing guiltless African Americans, this is what I call police brutality against African Americans.…
Too often an innocent individual is shot and killed by the police. Over the last 4 years, a total of 1,000 people has been killed by a police officer. Some of these law enforcement officers were not charged which resulted in public outrage and a number of mass protest across the country, led by African Americans to response…
Police Against the People Police brutality against black individuals has skyrocketed in the past several years causing an outrage within the community. Although the distinction between the privileges of white people and colored people have been going on all throughout history, nowadays, it’s getting a bit out of hand. Astonishingly, nearly one thousand people have been killed by the force of police brutality in 2015 alone, three out of every five deaths belonged to those of Hispanic and black race (Ribas)! Therefore, with this being said, writers from the past such as Malcom Holmes and the present, Kim Lersch, Thomas Bazley, Thomas Mieczkowski, and Kristina Childs; plus, Folusho Otuyelu, Warren Graham, and Shakira Kennedy have vigorously criticized…
The minute Kaepernick started his protest towards police brutality and racial injustice I vouched with him. For being a brave man who stood in front of millions to protest what he believed was right. The reason he started his protest might have not been for the greater good but rather for himself. That doesn’t matter as long as his protest is having an effect on people. Many would still not be aware of what was going on with police brutality if a famous football player would have not took a stand.…
Racial Profiling Leading to Police Brutality Police brutality is a problem because innocent people are getting hurt and/or killed by the very same people who took an oath to protect and serve the people of America. We need to speak up and tell the district they are working for to let America know that this is not okay. They are regular people just like the rest of us so they shouldn't get special recognition just because they work for the people. Police brutality has and remains to be a really big issue in the United States for many years but many people are barley noticing it because of the media attention it’s been getting over the years. Racial profiling is a problem because in most cases it leads to police brutality and we need to let the…
Police Brutality and Racial Disparities Introduction Police brutality against African Americans is a widely discussed topic across the states. However, what cause the police to be so? Why do they use excessive and deadly force against them? And is it really only about African Americans or does the other ethnicities encounter the same problem?…
There were several memorable Historical cases that dealt with police brutality. One case that I remembered the most was the Rodney King case. Rodney King’s case occurred on March of 1991. Rodney King was an African American construction worker at the time. Rodney was twenty-five when the incident occurred.…
Police brutality and racism seem to be consistently connected to one another. This has become a serious issue in which circumstances have ended violently or even fatally when involving police officers and African American citizens. In 2014, the United States Census Bureau reported that African American people make up only 13.2% of our population. Anyone can become a victim of police brutality, regardless of their race; but statistics show that African American people are being killed by police at more than twice the rate of Caucasian and Hispanic people. It is also considerably more likely for the African American victims in these situations to have been unarmed at their time of death.…
“When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.” (Berry) Recently police brutality has become an alarming issue in society. At the end of 2015, thousands of deaths resulted in accusing victims dying in police custody.…