Police brutality is an ongoing obstacle prevailed against minorities, such as young black men, in the "United" states. It is defined as the use of excessive force by police officers to handle situations if there is any at all. Each life that has been taken from a police has torn families apart and left them with no justice due to the factors in our unequal society. This unlawful crime has not only diminished families but it has questioned the trust for police officers around the nation and whether minorities should call on them when in a desperate need of help. Protests has filled the streets, angered by another lost of a pristine victim by the people that is suppose to protect the citizens of the "United" States.
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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), "Between 1984 and 1990, the FBI investigated approximately 3,000 complaints of criminal civil rights abuse a year, but federal prosecutors presented only about fifty cases... In the three years preceding the Rodney King incident, there were only ninety-eight federal prosecutions of police brutality in the entire nations” (Panwala). Based on the investigation, it is evident that there was not enough policemen charged with the crimes they committed and all reports made on those accounts were ignored by a large margin which is seen in present day. Minorities have dealt with unequal treatment from authorities for a long time so they are more sensitive when reoccurrences happens with police-involved deaths of their people today. Escalating protests and police killings are the result of these incidents. For instance, the mothers of the movement mentioned, “What they feel is what we 've been talking about. Those are the issues that people have been living every day. So what you see happening to the police now, why they 're being targeted is because of all of the root of the systemic racism and the poverty and there 's a bursting at the seams …show more content…
Another solution that can eliminate police brutality occurrences is to improve the relationships between officers and minorities by making it mandatory for police officers to host conventions in low-income areas and discuss any issues that citizens might have with law enforcement. In opposition, one might say, “…it should not come as a surprise that increases in police sensitivity training, higher educational requirements for officer recruits, community policing, and other progressive approaches have not produced a measurable decrease in police brutality against Black males because none of these initiatives specifically address the larger societal issues of police brutality and White supremacy of which police are an extension” (Chaney). Evidently, there is always going to be a social issue of white supremacy because blacks were forced into the country and was always known as the minority in American society and there is no way to alter the minds of the unjust but there can be a decrease in police brutality by penalizing police harsher and taking those necessary steps in making sure that there
The court systems have failed …show more content…
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), "Between 1984 and 1990, the FBI investigated approximately 3,000 complaints of criminal civil rights abuse a year, but federal prosecutors presented only about fifty cases... In the three years preceding the Rodney King incident, there were only ninety-eight federal prosecutions of police brutality in the entire nations” (Panwala). Based on the investigation, it is evident that there was not enough policemen charged with the crimes they committed and all reports made on those accounts were ignored by a large margin which is seen in present day. Minorities have dealt with unequal treatment from authorities for a long time so they are more sensitive when reoccurrences happens with police-involved deaths of their people today. Escalating protests and police killings are the result of these incidents. For instance, the mothers of the movement mentioned, “What they feel is what we 've been talking about. Those are the issues that people have been living every day. So what you see happening to the police now, why they 're being targeted is because of all of the root of the systemic racism and the poverty and there 's a bursting at the seams …show more content…
Another solution that can eliminate police brutality occurrences is to improve the relationships between officers and minorities by making it mandatory for police officers to host conventions in low-income areas and discuss any issues that citizens might have with law enforcement. In opposition, one might say, “…it should not come as a surprise that increases in police sensitivity training, higher educational requirements for officer recruits, community policing, and other progressive approaches have not produced a measurable decrease in police brutality against Black males because none of these initiatives specifically address the larger societal issues of police brutality and White supremacy of which police are an extension” (Chaney). Evidently, there is always going to be a social issue of white supremacy because blacks were forced into the country and was always known as the minority in American society and there is no way to alter the minds of the unjust but there can be a decrease in police brutality by penalizing police harsher and taking those necessary steps in making sure that there