In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the African American Community’s view on police brutality, especially in regards to our teens. Police brutality has begun to covered the media headlines more frequently because fatal shootings, and beatings are becoming more common in our society by the people whose job it is to “protect” us. Police brutality can be defined as excessive or unnecessary mistreatment forces against civilians. Mistreatment is not always physical but sometimes non-violent harassment and humiliating Often times police use their authority to their greatest advantage in situations that could have been avoided or handled in a more civilized manner. Studies have show that police use excessive force towards people
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This is something that should never be ignored. The contributing factor, race, has always been evident in police brutality. Going back in time to the 1990’s, in 1991 the Rodney King video was released of him being beaten with a baton by a police officer was released in Los Angeles, California. When the officers were let go freely after beating Rodney King an African American man the people of the city began to riot. Even in more recent years we have had several African American’s as victims to police brutality. In 2014 there was Michael brown an unarmed 18-year-old from Ferguson, Missouri and in 2015 a 14-year-old girl attending a pool party in Texas was also a victim of police brutality. The issue of police brutality is not a joke. There are people losing their lives everyday because of people we thought we’re here to protect us but have been doing more harm than anything. A change needs to be …show more content…
They may say that spending tax payer’s money on something such as new training and new technologies will not work and be useless because acts of police brutality will still go on. Police argue that they use excessive force only to protect themselves against criminals. The Police may argue that they already have an internal affairs division and that the current system is working. They may even say that adding these new rules and regulations is invading privacy of the officer. However, privacy is not something that should even be being discussed when in a situation as such. The only privacy that should be acknowledge is the privacy and boundaries they have crossed when mistreating a
This is something that should never be ignored. The contributing factor, race, has always been evident in police brutality. Going back in time to the 1990’s, in 1991 the Rodney King video was released of him being beaten with a baton by a police officer was released in Los Angeles, California. When the officers were let go freely after beating Rodney King an African American man the people of the city began to riot. Even in more recent years we have had several African American’s as victims to police brutality. In 2014 there was Michael brown an unarmed 18-year-old from Ferguson, Missouri and in 2015 a 14-year-old girl attending a pool party in Texas was also a victim of police brutality. The issue of police brutality is not a joke. There are people losing their lives everyday because of people we thought we’re here to protect us but have been doing more harm than anything. A change needs to be …show more content…
They may say that spending tax payer’s money on something such as new training and new technologies will not work and be useless because acts of police brutality will still go on. Police argue that they use excessive force only to protect themselves against criminals. The Police may argue that they already have an internal affairs division and that the current system is working. They may even say that adding these new rules and regulations is invading privacy of the officer. However, privacy is not something that should even be being discussed when in a situation as such. The only privacy that should be acknowledge is the privacy and boundaries they have crossed when mistreating a