Why Do People Use Police Brutality?

Till this day people still wonder what was the better method of handling police brutality and if it was handled right in the past because they wanted to progress the ways for the future and because of that people now a days have a similar situation that needs to be addressed if citizens and government are handling situations correctly. Many answers will differ from yes or no but it all comes down to what is efficient and what worked the best for different groups. What made this revolutionary group special is the risk they subconsciously took for their people. Studies showed that nonviolent campaigns have a 53 percent success rate and only about a 20 percent failure rate, while its reverse for campaigns that use violence in some for( ). …show more content…
Even with a statistic like that, the Panthers most likely wouldn't have cared because blacks were being killed regardless, and if they were not being killed then they might as well be dead because many were confined to the walls of injustice and denied the true essence of freedom. Nonviolent protests relied on the media to show the wrongdoings of the country but very rarely affected the welfare of the individuals/groups that were harmed. It seemed sometimes that Blacks were being used as an experiments to the media. Walter Bruce, a civil rights leaders from the 60s, who practiced self defense said that after he practiced self defense, he had “no more problems” and that there was “shooting no more”( ).This story says a lot because this is just one example out of millions and what make this even more amazing is this is well before the time of the BPP, thus showing how the use of Self defense was effective even before the