Do you believe in police brutality? Police brutality is the extensive use of force usually brought on from racism or hatred for the suspect. If you don’t know what a suspect is it is the person being arrested. While this happens to a lot of people it does not mean everyone who is arrested is subjected to police brutality. Police brutality is something bigger than the color of a man’s skin. Police brutality is just another excuse for people to get out of the crime they had committed. Have you heard of Michael Brown well if not, he is a black kid killed by a white officer. He was unarmed, but the police was not charged for what he did. The question is how is police brutality used, what are the statistics, and is every case like Michael Browns?
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No, not every defendant is charged with a crime nor is every crime huge or going to ruin a life. In an officer’s case it’s a little more difficult because say that officer was charged with extensive force. That police officer then could lose their job and go to jail/ prison. In addition to this, the victim of the extensive force could sue both the defendant and the police station. This is what initially brings an investigation on an officer. Regarding this brings up the topic of statistics and how they play a role in police activity. There were over 12, 196,959 arrests in the year 2012 alone, but there were not very many allegations of police brutality. In addition to that, there were just around 1,520 police involved in allegations of police brutality. This information doesn’t really help without knowing how many cops there were, which there were 670,439. All this information is pertaining to the year 2012 and in the year 2012 there were 313, 900,000 people living in the United States of …show more content…
There were around fifty thousand police officers assaulted, yet around 2, 400 of the fifty thousand died. The statistics of civilians killed by a police firearm are around 120 for African Americans and around 330 for Caucasians. This does not mean that every one of these deaths has anything to do with police brutality, but it means that cops kill only a few people. So, was Michael Brown’s shooting really a case of extensive force or is it not?
Michael Brown was an eighteen-year-old kid that had a tragic ending. Brown was caught stealing a box of cigarillos on a surveillance camera in a store called Ferguson Market and Liquor. Him and his from Dorian Johnson leave the store. They both are walking down the middle of a street when an officer named Darren Wilson stop’s them. Darren Wilson start’s to shout at Brown and Johnson, but they try to tell the officer how they were almost home. What happen next is that officer Darren try’s to take them in to
No, not every defendant is charged with a crime nor is every crime huge or going to ruin a life. In an officer’s case it’s a little more difficult because say that officer was charged with extensive force. That police officer then could lose their job and go to jail/ prison. In addition to this, the victim of the extensive force could sue both the defendant and the police station. This is what initially brings an investigation on an officer. Regarding this brings up the topic of statistics and how they play a role in police activity. There were over 12, 196,959 arrests in the year 2012 alone, but there were not very many allegations of police brutality. In addition to that, there were just around 1,520 police involved in allegations of police brutality. This information doesn’t really help without knowing how many cops there were, which there were 670,439. All this information is pertaining to the year 2012 and in the year 2012 there were 313, 900,000 people living in the United States of …show more content…
There were around fifty thousand police officers assaulted, yet around 2, 400 of the fifty thousand died. The statistics of civilians killed by a police firearm are around 120 for African Americans and around 330 for Caucasians. This does not mean that every one of these deaths has anything to do with police brutality, but it means that cops kill only a few people. So, was Michael Brown’s shooting really a case of extensive force or is it not?
Michael Brown was an eighteen-year-old kid that had a tragic ending. Brown was caught stealing a box of cigarillos on a surveillance camera in a store called Ferguson Market and Liquor. Him and his from Dorian Johnson leave the store. They both are walking down the middle of a street when an officer named Darren Wilson stop’s them. Darren Wilson start’s to shout at Brown and Johnson, but they try to tell the officer how they were almost home. What happen next is that officer Darren try’s to take them in to