Police Brutality And The Culture

There has been a going problem in our community with law enforcement and their relationship with citizens. Due to a very diverse group of people here in the United States, racial discrimination has erupted as one of the main reasons for police brutality. Scandal after scandal have been broadcasted throughout social media, causing people to dislike law enforcement. This has caused riots/marches to break our throughout various cities in the Unites States. With the “spirit of capitalism” Weber would describe it as the difference between the wealthy and the working class and the restricting striving gains that are presented to them. This would lead to the police brutality, due to the societal-cultural and economic conditions things like this are likely to occur. The “culture industry” described by Horkheimer and Adorno would lean this problem towards our social media and all the movies that condone violence is what lead to the problem we have today with police brutality. In the end, the problem that we have today is …show more content…
Within these two ideologies, we can see why something like police brutality is occurring in society today. We can also see that this is a growing topic that needs to be understood from the roots up, so the community is not retaliating against law enforcement. The Spirit of Capitalism and the Culture Industry both establish great points that evolve from the norms they bestow. This is then carried on and developed into a clash between two groups of people, like the situation we have here were police brutality is causing a group of people to fight back against law enforcement. This is creating the clash in our society that both ideologies explain. Overall, the issue in the United States with police brutality is an issue within the community, and needs to be explained better so it doesn’t continue to occur