Police Essay

I learned a lot about police during my ride along. I learned a few things about a police officer daily duties and the benefits about the job. I also realize that being a police officer is not exciting or required a lot of paper works like I thought. There is way more aspect to be a police officer than car chase or firing a gun as television portray it. A television episode about policing is not an accurate portrayal of an officer everyday work. On Sunday, April 16, 2017, I completed the…

Contested Word: Police Minorities are living in fear. Fear, of those who have sworn to serve and protect their lives. Police Brutality is now being brought to the attention of citizens around the world. With the movements like #BlackLivesMatter, citizens are beginning to taking a stand against the injustices placed upon minorities. Being an African American women growing up in Cambridge Ontario, and now The KW area. I’ve always seen myself as a minority. It’s sad to know that those who are said…

Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians (Daninila). Recently, there has been a surplus of incidents involving police brutality. However, police brutality is not a new concept. It has been going on since the civil rights era and long before then. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, commonly known as H. Rap Brown, once said, “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” (Black Radical Congress). His statement, which was said in the sixties,…

Examination on Police Brutality America’s legacy of freedom and independence has come to define our nation and be a great source of pride. However, after myriad cases of police brutality appearing across various media outlets, many are beginning to doubt the extent of our equality and if it applies to all citizens. This is particularly highlighted in the video footage that has surfaced, exposing the use of excessive force by police officers on civilians, causing many to question the…

world when it comes to bad behavior by the police, when they come into contact with the general public, it seems as if the police misbehavior is at its all-time high. Many citizens are being killed at the hands of the police, and some for no apparent reason at all. A man killed in the stairwell of an apartment building by the police where there is no light in the stairwell for more than twenty floors. What course of action can be taken against the police? Often times the patrol officer is…

of people use Twitter and Facebook as their source of information. This is causing us to form biased opinions on topics we never care to research. Police brutality has become a major topic of discussion on social media. How police are attacking minority groups for no apparent reason, that the police are abusing their power. Social media has put police under a magnifying glass making its people form bias opinions on the topic.…

force on this issue comes from multiple avenues. First off, let us think about what it means to have a Human Rights Watch investigation into police misconduct of one of the most powerful and modern nations in the world. The back cover of the published investigation notes that “despite promises of reform following high-profile incidents, abusive treatment by police officers persists because systems presumably designed to hold officers accountable instead, in practice, often allow them to escape…

EXCESSIVE FORCE: THE BLACK MALE PHENOMENON 3 History of Police Use of Excessive Force Police misconduct is as old as policing in the United States itself. Beginning with the very first police departments in the 19th century, there were significant patterns of police misconduct, including: the use of excessive force, illegal detention and arrests, coercive tactics to gain confessions, illegal searches and seizures, race discrimination (with respect to both arrests and the use of force), and…

On April 27, 2018 Police Officer Nicholas Hayden, DSN 11468, and I (Police Officer James Harris III, DSN 0513) were on routine patrol at 35 South Grand Boulevard (Shell’s Gas Station), when were stopped by a male victim regarding an “Assault” just occurred. The male victim advised while he was pumping gas at the above mentioned location, an unknown black male walked up and struck him on the right side of his face with an open hand before fleeing the area south on South Grand Boulevard. The…

reduce police brutality, reformation has to happen between police and citizens. Citizens, specifically African Americans, must have confidence and trust in police officers. The police brutality that is being surfaced and committed makes it difficult to establish that. Race is the key predictor of citizens attitude towards each other including police. Blacks are more likely to express more attitude than whites. It dates back since the beginning of time of how blacks were mistreated. If police…