The aim of this research is to provide insight regarding the research question and a contribution on how to solve these societal issues to create a better community. Between the years 2014 and 2015, police violence in the U.S. “generated a national conversation about the nature of America's law enforcement” (Wang 2015, 1). The lives of residents are often not valued. Unfortunately, “no other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities” than the U.S. (McCoy 2014, 6). Police misconduct and violence are only symptoms of a larger societal issue: institutionalized racism in the police force. While there are, many other challenging issues facing modern society, race plays a vital role in the cultivation of police brutality
