Critical reflection – Reviewing issue on police brutality related to ethnic minorities
A disquieting number of 1,146 people killed in 2015 and 307 of them are black, this includes death from police use of a Taser, deaths caused by police vehicles and dispute in police custody as well as those killed by officers who opened fire (Swaine, Laughland, and Lartey, 2015). Although there was a higher number of white people killed in the US (Gabrielson, Grochowski Jones and Sagara, 2016), it shows a significance of being a black person are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement. On 12th April 2015, Baltimore police arrested a Black American man, which accused of possessing a switchblade, a 45 minutes’ drive, the ride ended up 25-year-old …show more content…
As a black person has put a strain on them as well as the society, causing social unrest with its people, numerous underprivileged lower class communities have observed their policing wants and needs overlooked. The custom of police brutality has a strong effect on a primary fragment of the American population. Police brutality used to subjugate the racial blacks and to attain supremacy and opportunities for the white race. It has been an issue for many years, and it persists as a key concern for those of the minority community likewise, it has turned out to be more centred recently because of a few cases, such as Michael Brown (Healy, 2014) that have happened in the previous couple of years that have highly broadcasted. Racial profiling is one of the shared methods of police brutality, to stop and search someone when they are in a different skin tone, it also mostly targets the black people and it is a justified act in the law enforcement. As such, black people are stereotyped due to the fact that they are more prone to violent crime and drug abuse, looking suspicious and aggressive (Graef, 1989, p 7). Undeniably, even with laws in place, prejudice still happens today. Debates concerning governance policing and police infringement of human rights has surfaced throughout the years. Governance and human rights are essential issues for police to appease the public and legitimize the actions that they do, to fulfill the basis of policing. Having good governance in policing is having an arrangement of guidelines and authority with objectives to follow. Community Relations Service set up by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2016), a common purpose to avert and work out racial pressures and to strengthen security and balance
A disquieting number of 1,146 people killed in 2015 and 307 of them are black, this includes death from police use of a Taser, deaths caused by police vehicles and dispute in police custody as well as those killed by officers who opened fire (Swaine, Laughland, and Lartey, 2015). Although there was a higher number of white people killed in the US (Gabrielson, Grochowski Jones and Sagara, 2016), it shows a significance of being a black person are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement. On 12th April 2015, Baltimore police arrested a Black American man, which accused of possessing a switchblade, a 45 minutes’ drive, the ride ended up 25-year-old …show more content…
As a black person has put a strain on them as well as the society, causing social unrest with its people, numerous underprivileged lower class communities have observed their policing wants and needs overlooked. The custom of police brutality has a strong effect on a primary fragment of the American population. Police brutality used to subjugate the racial blacks and to attain supremacy and opportunities for the white race. It has been an issue for many years, and it persists as a key concern for those of the minority community likewise, it has turned out to be more centred recently because of a few cases, such as Michael Brown (Healy, 2014) that have happened in the previous couple of years that have highly broadcasted. Racial profiling is one of the shared methods of police brutality, to stop and search someone when they are in a different skin tone, it also mostly targets the black people and it is a justified act in the law enforcement. As such, black people are stereotyped due to the fact that they are more prone to violent crime and drug abuse, looking suspicious and aggressive (Graef, 1989, p 7). Undeniably, even with laws in place, prejudice still happens today. Debates concerning governance policing and police infringement of human rights has surfaced throughout the years. Governance and human rights are essential issues for police to appease the public and legitimize the actions that they do, to fulfill the basis of policing. Having good governance in policing is having an arrangement of guidelines and authority with objectives to follow. Community Relations Service set up by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2016), a common purpose to avert and work out racial pressures and to strengthen security and balance