From 2010 to 2012 there was 1,217 deadly police shootings. Blacks, ages 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, whereas only 1.47 per million white people were killed at the hands of police officers (Wihbey and Kille). In years following September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina, cases of police brutality spiked. In the 2000s, police departments started using tasers for an alternative to other deadly forces, which caused more than 150 suspects to die after the device was used on them (Wihbey and Kille). The weapons were used with greater frequency on people of color (Wihbey and Kille). Most of the cases, specifically 98 percent in 2005, were denied prosecution. Police Brutality has been going on since 1833 (Ochs,Holona). Given
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The use of excessive force without a just cause used by police officers, security personnel, or correction facility personnel violates the civil rights of suspects. After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., a growing conservative white backlash concerned about law and order stiffened its resolve against further minority demands (Jenkins, Robert L.). During the time of Martin Luther, civil rights became a huge issue that needed to be addressed. A movement started to splinter badly over issues of nonviolence and Black power. All of these issues have seen to be recurring in modern day times. Some of these issues stem from the idea of police brutality and how easily the police officers are getting away with excessive force on minorities. In an instance in 2002, a Dominican man with epilepsy had a seizure right in front of a police officer and instead of helping the man, the police officer suffocated him to death (Farine, Miroslav). This man was a person of color, with dreadlocks, and the officer assumed that because of the man 's look he was a drug addict who was acting violently. Another instance …show more content…
Police departments should terminate every officer who is involved in settled lawsuits. Usually officers who cost millions of dollars in lawsuits are allowed to return to their job. The department shouldn’t allow this, and they should also place the officer on the National Police Offender Registry. There is now also a website, Citizens Police Data Project, which shows complaints lodged against any cop (Talbot,Margaret). One procedure that should take effect is that every lethal force case needs to go to trial. If an officer is said to be involved in a police brutality case, then they shouldn’t be able to get out of it without being tried. In order to help trials be quick and easy, all officers should have body cameras or cameras on the dashboard of their cop car to record all events. This provides a type of supervision that is needed in order to get rid of the “he said she said” type of cases. While all of these procedures, policies, and supervision ideas will help minimize police brutality, one main thing that needs to take place is discipline of the officers. Of nearly twenty-nine thousand allegations of misconduct filed between 2011 and 2015, only two percent resulted in any discipline and those who did only going suspended for less than a week (Talbot, Margaret). The community needs to be able to trust the police department. They won 't be able to trust them if they continually see
The use of excessive force without a just cause used by police officers, security personnel, or correction facility personnel violates the civil rights of suspects. After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., a growing conservative white backlash concerned about law and order stiffened its resolve against further minority demands (Jenkins, Robert L.). During the time of Martin Luther, civil rights became a huge issue that needed to be addressed. A movement started to splinter badly over issues of nonviolence and Black power. All of these issues have seen to be recurring in modern day times. Some of these issues stem from the idea of police brutality and how easily the police officers are getting away with excessive force on minorities. In an instance in 2002, a Dominican man with epilepsy had a seizure right in front of a police officer and instead of helping the man, the police officer suffocated him to death (Farine, Miroslav). This man was a person of color, with dreadlocks, and the officer assumed that because of the man 's look he was a drug addict who was acting violently. Another instance …show more content…
Police departments should terminate every officer who is involved in settled lawsuits. Usually officers who cost millions of dollars in lawsuits are allowed to return to their job. The department shouldn’t allow this, and they should also place the officer on the National Police Offender Registry. There is now also a website, Citizens Police Data Project, which shows complaints lodged against any cop (Talbot,Margaret). One procedure that should take effect is that every lethal force case needs to go to trial. If an officer is said to be involved in a police brutality case, then they shouldn’t be able to get out of it without being tried. In order to help trials be quick and easy, all officers should have body cameras or cameras on the dashboard of their cop car to record all events. This provides a type of supervision that is needed in order to get rid of the “he said she said” type of cases. While all of these procedures, policies, and supervision ideas will help minimize police brutality, one main thing that needs to take place is discipline of the officers. Of nearly twenty-nine thousand allegations of misconduct filed between 2011 and 2015, only two percent resulted in any discipline and those who did only going suspended for less than a week (Talbot, Margaret). The community needs to be able to trust the police department. They won 't be able to trust them if they continually see