Police Essay

Unfortunately, local police now a days are equipped with weapons powerful enough to conquer a small country. The use of SWAT teams have risen up 1500 percent over the past two decades. Police departments have developed a “it’s only us vs them” mentality towards the public that they have sworn an oath to protect. Even though that possession of powerful weapons do not perform misconduct, there is the saying that, when you have power and no one to stop you from using it, why waste it? There are…

Police Brutality Targets Minorities Police Brutality seems to be becoming more of a bigger problem as the days go by. You hear stories on the news that another police officer killed an innocent black man or women and it makes you wonder why. The reason why I chose police brutality as my topic to research is because I wanted to find out more about why this is becoming such a big issue, what causes a police officer to use a gun first and not a taser, and the connection it has with minority…

Police brutality is a controversial topic when it comes to social media outlets. For example, the excessive shooting by a police officer caused the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MI. According to Ferguson Police Report, the Ferguson Police department was filled with so much corruption in their practices that the U.S Department of Justice had to fully investigate the Ferguson Police Department on September 4, 2014. Our history always has a way of repeating itself. Police brutality is not a…

amongst the African American community are rising due to the latest cases of police brutality. The use of brutal and in most cases lethal force by some police officers leading to the unnecessary deaths has seen the US security forces being on the spot concerning their work ethics. Some may want to argue these cases such as the shooting of Michael Brown and Sandra Bland are isolated cases. Others would argue that the work of a police officer is too difficult and that sometimes such an officer…

Since the civil rights movements in the 1960’s American citizens have had issues with police crime and police ethnic. Within the last decade since the spread of social media have spread ideals that the police have been looked at as a symbol of fear and violence. The fear of the police has created riots and protests across the country. We have seen how these police officers have reacted in these negative/violent situations in which dangerous events become unpredicted and officers need to follow…

certain “leaders in New York [to call] for special prosecutors, or the attorney general, to investigate all fatal encounters” (McKinley & Baker, n.d.). Legal experts have said that because the prosecutors select a “special grand jury to investigate police-related deaths, they insulate themselves from the final decision, while appearing to fulfill the public desire for an independent review” (McKinley & Baker, n.d.). Due to these ongoing problems many citizens feel betrayed by the court system as…

Police officers play a vast role in today’s society and law enforcement system, they have been granted an extreme amount of power to protect the nation and it’s people. However, recently they have given us the opportunity to question their integrity and the reasoning behind some of their actions. Their initial job was to help monitor criminal activity and bring justice to the world, but as of late they have been doing more damage than good. With all the police brutality and unjustifiable murders…

There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Nearly every day there is a news report on police misuse of conduct when dealing with the public. Unresisting suspects have been beaten and shot by police. Misapplication of batons, chemical sprays, tasers and restraining methods have resulted in deaths. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported annually and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after…

Police corruption is the lack of police integrity. It also constitutes one of the most significant obstacles to positive police-public relations in today’s society (Grant, 2002). Thirty-six countries out of one hundred and seven, professed that law enforcement institutions are one of the institutions considered to be most corrupted in the world in 2013 ("Global Corruption Barometer 2013 - Results", n.d.). Corruption can be defined as the abuse of power entrusted to individuals who use it for…

Police Brutality is the use of any force exceeding necessary force to accomplish lawful police matters. Police Brutality is happening everywhere, but in specific Mexico. There have been several cases where policemen abuse their power while on the job, even at the police station. Is it fair that police can use brute force in Mexico to protect the people of their country? In Mexico the policemen are known for using excessive force. For example, Karen Vasquez, a 20-year old university student…