Effects Of Police Brutality On Society

Racism is a topic that’s really iffy now a day in this day in age. It’s one of the most important issues in the world that’s being dealt with today. Ignorance, fear, and hatred are probably some of the reasons why it’s happening today. Just because a person from a different color race or their skin is a different color from yours; why do they have to be treated differently or even out casted from others? However, when they do wrong, everyone else from that race is discriminated and judged, even profiled by people from other races, ethnic backgrounds and skin colors. A few current events that are tied to racism in my opinion as well as others is police brutality and racial profiling. Many people think if someone from one specific race does a …show more content…
These events have caused multiple protest and riots even more clashes between racial groups. It has a lot of citizens questioning the police departments around as a whole. Questioning how the procedures work when it comes to arresting people and restraining them in situations. Some other effect that police brutality has had on today’s society is when a serious situation is going on they rather let it continue to let it happen then call the police for help. They rather do this because they don’t know if they police will reverse it and began to hurt people. As if they can’t trust the police departments, they can’t be trusted with all the racial profiling and brutality going on in today’s society. African American, Hispanics and other minorities being abused and harassed on daily bases by the police. Makes African American fear for their lives. Do they have to be worried if they will make it home at night? Because they can be killed by the police at any second. Or can you grow up being black in Americas society …show more content…
What racial profiling means is “The use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone committing an offense”. This falls back to the Eric Garner case where he was being suspected to selling loose cigarettes on the street. The big question is how racial profiling relates to police brutality in today’s society. Well it’s kind of simple police officers suspect and assume a lot. Before knowing actual facts before reacting to a certain situation. The expect blacks and Hispanics to commit more rough and unreasonable crimes because they grew up the toughest, the roughest community’s and environments. So there subjected to do more crimes than whites because they didn’t have to live in a crime filled environment. Whites didn’t have to learn bad things to survive in a very discriminated environment they grew up on a lot more rights and