Everybody is supposed to feel safe around police officers on account of the fact that the most imperative duty of the police is to carry out the law and correct or chastise those who violate it. These officers are granted the right to use fair and justifiable force to apprehend offenders and maintain peace and order within the communities however, this right legally bestowed upon them by the U.S. Justice System gives them a sense of empowerment which presents a forbidding, national issue that requires immediate attention; police brutality. Police Brutality occurs mostly when the culprits are of a race that is deemed a suspicious or inferior stereotype. This is a form of discrimination called racial bias. Racial bias plays a detrimental role
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She and her compatriots had staged many protests against sexism and gender roles, supporting the idea of feminism. Numerous citizens thought the suffragists’ wartime protests were unpatriotic, so they attacked Paul with angry mobs. Paul and her fellow protestors were arrested for supposedly hindering traffic and were incarcerated in the Occoquan Workhouse after they dismissed their need to compensate for their appointed infringement fee. These women followed the English suffragette model and indignantly demanded to be regarded as political prisoners and staged hunger strikes. Their demands were met with brutality as suffragists, including frail, older women, were beaten, pushed and thrown into cold, unsanitary, and rat-infested cells. For staging hunger strikes, Paul and several other suffragists were forcibly fed in a tortuous method ("Who Was Alice Paul - API"). Although these historic events seem extreme, they are nothing like the brutal attacks made by the officers during the Civil Rights Era. The police departments had notoriously been in collaboration with the KKK after the Civil War during the reconstruction period. As time progressed, a great deal of reforms were made to the law to protect civilians against brutality however this progression came slowly. One of the most brutal attackers of African-Americans in 1963 was Eugene “Bull” Connor who at the time was the commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama. Connor strongly opposed the idea of racial equality and integration. His motto was to keep the races separate and he held white supremacy in such high regard that when he was asked if he could really maintain and control segregation he replied by saying “ I may not be able to do it, but I'll die tryin’.” He would do this by implementing the tactic of excessive force like ordering high-pressure firehoses and police dogs even on the most peaceful of
She and her compatriots had staged many protests against sexism and gender roles, supporting the idea of feminism. Numerous citizens thought the suffragists’ wartime protests were unpatriotic, so they attacked Paul with angry mobs. Paul and her fellow protestors were arrested for supposedly hindering traffic and were incarcerated in the Occoquan Workhouse after they dismissed their need to compensate for their appointed infringement fee. These women followed the English suffragette model and indignantly demanded to be regarded as political prisoners and staged hunger strikes. Their demands were met with brutality as suffragists, including frail, older women, were beaten, pushed and thrown into cold, unsanitary, and rat-infested cells. For staging hunger strikes, Paul and several other suffragists were forcibly fed in a tortuous method ("Who Was Alice Paul - API"). Although these historic events seem extreme, they are nothing like the brutal attacks made by the officers during the Civil Rights Era. The police departments had notoriously been in collaboration with the KKK after the Civil War during the reconstruction period. As time progressed, a great deal of reforms were made to the law to protect civilians against brutality however this progression came slowly. One of the most brutal attackers of African-Americans in 1963 was Eugene “Bull” Connor who at the time was the commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama. Connor strongly opposed the idea of racial equality and integration. His motto was to keep the races separate and he held white supremacy in such high regard that when he was asked if he could really maintain and control segregation he replied by saying “ I may not be able to do it, but I'll die tryin’.” He would do this by implementing the tactic of excessive force like ordering high-pressure firehoses and police dogs even on the most peaceful of