What is police brutality? In most cases police brutality varies on where you live. Police brutality refers to the intentional usage of verbal assault or excessive force directed towards citizens by the police force. This excessive force may be physical or in form of psychological intimidation. Police brutality is highly evident in many countries all over the world especially in the news where such cases are reported. Police brutality is seen as a form of misconduct which involves sexual abuse, police corruption, false arrests, racial conflict, and political repression, with the main cases that the public hears about, being racial conflict.
To understand the racial conflict between the community and police officers you first have to understand …show more content…
In 2016 a white, female police officer shot and killed “Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man whose death led to criminal charges against an officer. Last month, that officer was acquitted of a charge of first-degree manslaughter.”(washington post). That officer claimed she feared for her life as she shot him from across the street. Even kids are being shot as “Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old high school freshman who was shot in April by a police officer in a Dallas suburb”(washington post). The officer also claims that he feared for his life as he “opened fire with an AR-15 rifle on Edwards and his friends as they drove away from a party”(washington post). The officer claims they tried to back over him, but this was later deduced after officials reviewed the video footage. At The age of 7 “Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a black girl fatally shot by police as she slept on a couch in her family's Detroit home”(). This all happened as a nighttime raid as police burst threw the wrong apartment door guns blazing. Than another killing as “Tamir Rice, a black boy from Cleveland fatally shot by police while holding a fake gun in November 2014” (Washington post). All of these deaths mean something, that their is still deep rooted racism going on in America …show more content…
“The number of police officers convicted of a crime for killing a black person while on duty in 2014- 2015 was Zero” (guardian). The number of officers being convicted has gone up but only “13 officers have been convicted of murder or manslaughter in fatal on-duty shootings” (huffington post). The number of officers being convicted is slightly going up as this is just “35% were convicted”(cnn). In 2018 “The estimated number of black Americans now incarcerated in the U.S.: 1 million of 2.3 million” (?) this fact is saying that about half of the of the people in prison are black. Now shootings are starting to go down as “Los Angeles, fatal shootings are down to seven, which Matthew Johnson, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, considers a small victory” (?). While the number of black people being shoot is going down there is still people being shoot. “Officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said they have been working to reduce the number of deadly encounters” (?). What is police brutality? Police brutality is seen as a form of misconduct which involves sexual abuse, police corruption, false arrests, racial conflict, and political repression, with the main cases that the public hears about, being racial conflict. If we as a nation can look seriously at the evidence, we can have a much more productive conversation about what’s gone wrong and how to fix it. While
To understand the racial conflict between the community and police officers you first have to understand …show more content…
In 2016 a white, female police officer shot and killed “Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man whose death led to criminal charges against an officer. Last month, that officer was acquitted of a charge of first-degree manslaughter.”(washington post). That officer claimed she feared for her life as she shot him from across the street. Even kids are being shot as “Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old high school freshman who was shot in April by a police officer in a Dallas suburb”(washington post). The officer also claims that he feared for his life as he “opened fire with an AR-15 rifle on Edwards and his friends as they drove away from a party”(washington post). The officer claims they tried to back over him, but this was later deduced after officials reviewed the video footage. At The age of 7 “Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a black girl fatally shot by police as she slept on a couch in her family's Detroit home”(). This all happened as a nighttime raid as police burst threw the wrong apartment door guns blazing. Than another killing as “Tamir Rice, a black boy from Cleveland fatally shot by police while holding a fake gun in November 2014” (Washington post). All of these deaths mean something, that their is still deep rooted racism going on in America …show more content…
“The number of police officers convicted of a crime for killing a black person while on duty in 2014- 2015 was Zero” (guardian). The number of officers being convicted has gone up but only “13 officers have been convicted of murder or manslaughter in fatal on-duty shootings” (huffington post). The number of officers being convicted is slightly going up as this is just “35% were convicted”(cnn). In 2018 “The estimated number of black Americans now incarcerated in the U.S.: 1 million of 2.3 million” (?) this fact is saying that about half of the of the people in prison are black. Now shootings are starting to go down as “Los Angeles, fatal shootings are down to seven, which Matthew Johnson, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, considers a small victory” (?). While the number of black people being shoot is going down there is still people being shoot. “Officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said they have been working to reduce the number of deadly encounters” (?). What is police brutality? Police brutality is seen as a form of misconduct which involves sexual abuse, police corruption, false arrests, racial conflict, and political repression, with the main cases that the public hears about, being racial conflict. If we as a nation can look seriously at the evidence, we can have a much more productive conversation about what’s gone wrong and how to fix it. While