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    lives is continued in schools as well in recent years due to the presence of police officers also known as School Resource Officers or “SROs”. They act as law enforcers, mediators, and educators. According to the CNN article “Police in Schools: Why Are They There?” written by Greg Botelho and Ralph Ellis, “some 43% of all U.S. Public School – had such officers on their grounds since 2013-2014 school year.” This is a major police presence in our schools that assist teachers in maintaining order…

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    Police Misconduct Analysis

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    work that police officers do is very complex. There are different rules and codes that they are supposed to follow in order to accomplish their job at their organization. Police officers present different behaviors while patrolling and in other areas of policing that creates many confrontations with the society as well inside their departments with co-workers and other people above them. In police departments exits different codes that police officers follow that many times create that police…

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    An Analysis of State v. Steele (2013) for Police Misconduct and Kingsley v. Hendrickson et al. (2015) for Police Brutality Background: In this case evaluation, the overarching problem of police misconduct and police brutality will be examined in State v. Steele and Kingsley v. Hendrickson et al. In the past ten years, there has been an alarming rate of police misconduct and police brutality, which continues to be a problem in terms of prosecuting corrupt law enforcement officials in the field…

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    Brutality and misconduct against our minority population has been a controversial social and political issue which dates back to slavery. Incidents of police brutality sparked riots in desperately impoverished communities throughout the 1970s and 1980s (US Commission on Civil Rights 1983). Civil rights protest also brought with them an immense amount of violence from southern police departments whom were retaliating against equal rights for African Americans. In an attempt to silence protestors…

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    rise of police shootings towards black men and women racism is staying the same or even growing. However, some people think racism is fading from are races twining together and becoming less racist. On the college level racism still needs to be resolved, but due to the growing number of activists, the police having higher brutality towards minorities, and also from the political climate that encourages discrimination, racism is still growing. The brutality towards minorities by police has…

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    good about Baltimore. Like the harbor, Diversity and other things like that Police Brutality, I mean I know not all police aren't bad but some are. It's no need need to shoot people most of the time for nothing and it's mostly black people being shot and killed. So this police brutality thing is mostly towards black people.It's rare if you hear on the news about a white person being shot or killed on the news by a Police. Everyone can vote, women can vote Black men can…

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    E. (2014, November 26). Should Every Police Officer be outfitted with a body Camera? In NBC NEWS. Retrieved June 28, 2015, from www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/should-every-police-officer-be-outfitted-body-camera-n256881 Fieldstadt, 2014, -in this report Fieldstadt reports with hopes to help the inquirer to demand and vote for the need of body cameras for all law enforcement. Fieldstadt infer that in order to stop excessive force by the police discretionary decision there must…

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    essential as it appears that the United States has a real problem with police violence. “In 2013 the Civilian Complaint Review Board in New York City received more than 5,000 complaints of excessive use of force, totaling 11,334 allegations (Feige, 2015). Of those allegations that were substantiated, most of officers involved were administratively charged and received a verbal reprimand as punishment (Feige, 2015). “In 2011, police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany…

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    Police Shootings

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    For the past few months instances of police brutality and police shootings have risen to new highs. Because of this rise is police violence the public has taken to filming these instances and getting the videos out into the internet and spreading them around social media. In reaction to two such videos the public reacted negatively due to the fact that two videos of such police shooting/killings came out back to back. One video was of a young black man already on the ground with two officers…

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    happening in our nation, but has not addressed everything. Theres many problems in our country, but the song specifies in addressing ones the artist think is important now. The 2016 version, which closely resembles the older version, addresses police brutality, discrimination, and indifference of human beings.…

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