Officer Cadet

riots and a whole town is torn apart. Police are sent to regulate these protests and all hell breaks loose. It all started on Saturday, August 9th, when an officer responds to a reported robbery at a convenience store. The dispatcher gives a description of the robber and says the suspect is walking towards the convenience store. The officer gets to the area and encounters 18-year-old Michael Brown, and a friend. Moments later, Brown is shot six times and dies. The shooting of Michael Brown…

Police Brutality Police officers risk their lives daily to keep our communities safe. These men and women are often in situations where their lives are in danger. Facing dangerous criminals, police sometimes must use force. However some officers use more force than what is needed. Today this issue is debated constantly. All over the media cases of Police brutality come up everyday. Racism is believed to play a major factor in police brutality. A question constantly asked is…

Officers In the United States of America “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” If you aren’t careful your Miranda Rights will be read to you in a manner in which you will be subjected to an arrest. Americans violate laws…

death of Samuel Dubose in Cincinnati, Ohio by Officer Tensing Ray. “Officer Tensing stated that he almost was run over by the driver…was forces to shoot the driver with his duty weapon…he fired a single shot…he was being dragged by the vehicle and had to fire his weapon” (Blow, The New York Times). “The video proves that none of that happened” (Blow, The New York Times). According to The New York times Samuel DuBose was shot multiple times and Officer Tensing was not ran over by DuBose’s car…

the police that I know my rights. In addition, I have created a Facebook group with my student organization on campus so we can post and blog about current events that are happening everyday. For example, we have debated and spoken how a police officer in my town framed a murder, or how ISIS is terrorizing our world. We are doing the polar opposite of an everyday college student. Not to mention, we should actually care about what’s going on; everything that is going on will in the end affect…

With all the killings in the past year it could be stated that the police department as a whole threatens the lives of black americans. Black American 's no longer feel safe when police officers come around, they feel almost immediately worse than before. This social justice principle states that “the measure of EVERY institution 's whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person” and right now the police department…

2015 Police Brutality in Oklahoma Over the years America has become afraid of the very people who are said to protect us. This is a result of officers abusing their power of authority and using unnecessary violence against an individual, resulting in psychical harm fatality. Oklahoma is the fifth state with the highest reported misconduct per 100,000 officers (“Abused”). Even if a person has committed a crime or is resisting arrest, only a certain amount of force should be used to obtain them,…

the court system as evidenced by the Grand Jury decision not to indict the officers who were accused of the death of Eric Garner.…

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…

that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. This issue has been happening for years but been put in the spotlight lately from the media. Police brutality ties in with racial profiling. These cases tend to be the Caucasian police officer and an African-American victim; they state that police are more likely to use excessive force on suspects. Shown in a graph from the sunlight foundation, almost three…