On Duty: The Perspective of an Officer Police Brutality has been a disease upon society, deteriorating from within by using the upmost high authority which is the Law Enforcement. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the phrase “Law Enforcement” is a term that describes the individuals and agencies responsible for enforcing laws and maintaining public order and public safety. Law enforcement includes the prevention, detection, and investigation of crime and the apprehension and detention of individuals suspected of a law violation. That definition should solely describe the purpose of law enforcement. Many times in the past as well as in the present, people within the society could testify to experiencing law enforcement not living
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Throughout American history there has been many occasions of police brutality. One of the first few, major publicized incidents of police brutality was the gruesome, savage beating of an unarmed motorist, Rodney king by four Los Angeles Police officers. In the time we live in now, they’re has been many incidents such like the Mike Brown incident that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri which …show more content…
We live in a nation that exemplifies law enforcement abusing their authority and their use their militant-like actions, in which some has resulted in permanent injury, even death of an innocent citizens. As I began to question the purpose of police and began analyze the actions and the demeanor of the present law enforcement, I was driven to understanding what causes these reoccurring incidents to happen and what factors such as race, attitude, training plays into these numerous accounts of police brutality. In order to obtain a precise and detailed perspective of a police officer, I decided to conduct an interview with my grandfather, Henry Ray Mincey Sr., a former Kansas City Police Officer who contains nineteen years of experience behind him. I felt that my grandfather would be able to provide the perspective of an officer, having to learn and
Throughout American history there has been many occasions of police brutality. One of the first few, major publicized incidents of police brutality was the gruesome, savage beating of an unarmed motorist, Rodney king by four Los Angeles Police officers. In the time we live in now, they’re has been many incidents such like the Mike Brown incident that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri which …show more content…
We live in a nation that exemplifies law enforcement abusing their authority and their use their militant-like actions, in which some has resulted in permanent injury, even death of an innocent citizens. As I began to question the purpose of police and began analyze the actions and the demeanor of the present law enforcement, I was driven to understanding what causes these reoccurring incidents to happen and what factors such as race, attitude, training plays into these numerous accounts of police brutality. In order to obtain a precise and detailed perspective of a police officer, I decided to conduct an interview with my grandfather, Henry Ray Mincey Sr., a former Kansas City Police Officer who contains nineteen years of experience behind him. I felt that my grandfather would be able to provide the perspective of an officer, having to learn and