Police Violence
A Research Paper on How Law Cannot Effect Police Violence Police violence is a serious subject and takes place in a variety of ways. Police violence is defined as, “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians (Danilina).” Which raises the question of can laws be put into place in order to deal with this issue? Can law bring about the change that is needed in order to reduce police violence? Can the implementation of simple and certain policies such as body cameras, training, or can even intervention in the police institutions help? With training, institutional implementation of certain policy changes, and with the evidence that laws can occasionally bring about social change, there should be laws implemented in order to reduce police violence. I argue that the law should be involved in trying to solve the problem of police violence because the simple implementation of certain policies or law because of the dangers of policing, wearing body cameras can raise the accountability of officers, and allowing the public to hold the police accountable can help to reduce police violence.
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Studies have shown that when the more an officer trains the less likely they will use excessive force (Lee et. al.). Training the department on not only police violence, but in other respects such as mental illness, diversity, and racism could potentially have a dramatic positive impact on the use of force against these groups (Cheney-Rice). The collection of data is very important by the police department. Collecting data on police violence allows the department to know the scope of the problem which they are facing. As with body cameras, have an outside oversight committee look at the data being presented and offer suggestions in order to maintain the issue
A Research Paper on How Law Cannot Effect Police Violence Police violence is a serious subject and takes place in a variety of ways. Police violence is defined as, “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians (Danilina).” Which raises the question of can laws be put into place in order to deal with this issue? Can law bring about the change that is needed in order to reduce police violence? Can the implementation of simple and certain policies such as body cameras, training, or can even intervention in the police institutions help? With training, institutional implementation of certain policy changes, and with the evidence that laws can occasionally bring about social change, there should be laws implemented in order to reduce police violence. I argue that the law should be involved in trying to solve the problem of police violence because the simple implementation of certain policies or law because of the dangers of policing, wearing body cameras can raise the accountability of officers, and allowing the public to hold the police accountable can help to reduce police violence.
Dangers of Policing Being a police …show more content…
Studies have shown that when the more an officer trains the less likely they will use excessive force (Lee et. al.). Training the department on not only police violence, but in other respects such as mental illness, diversity, and racism could potentially have a dramatic positive impact on the use of force against these groups (Cheney-Rice). The collection of data is very important by the police department. Collecting data on police violence allows the department to know the scope of the problem which they are facing. As with body cameras, have an outside oversight committee look at the data being presented and offer suggestions in order to maintain the issue