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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…

people being shot or beaten to death by the police for the past two to three years flooded the local and national news. The stories of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Laquan McDonald has shocked many people, including myself. Police officers should be trained professionals who are supposed to serve and protect the public. As a citizen, I want to know that the police are protecting all citizens but it is hard watching the news and seeing how police officers are killing unarmed men and women,…

Police officers vowed to protect the lives of citizens, as well as keep the community safe. Unfortunately, several fellow officers have decided to brutalize citizens, and abuse authority. By using excessive, unreasonable force, these officers have put the lives of other officers at risk, although they have been following their authorities. Police brutality has increased throughout the years. Police brutality refers to the use of excessive force against a civilian. Many innocent lives have been…

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…

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 their training protocol. The public needs to know what officers are trained…

deaths, is that police use an unnecessary amount of force on civilians. However, most of the force used by police is legitimately needed. Police have little time to assess and react in very serious situations. The men and women who are police officers are well-trained professionals. All police officers, with some unfortunate exceptions, have procedural manuals that they strictly follow when using force on civilians. Most of the information put out by the media about the use of police force, is…

Police officers killed at least 37% of unarmed african americans in 2015, more than any other nationality, despite african americans being only 13% of the United States population. Only nine of the 102 cases concerning with police brutality resulted in officers being charged with crime. Police Officers should go to jail for their crime for their actions such as brutal abuse, murder and/or racial profiling. Police brutality is a serious cause in the United States that most of the community is…

the last few years with police brutality and the killing of citizens seen by video, through social media, or by protest. From Ferguson, to James Blake the tennis star, even going back to Trayvon Martin, or the young girl of color that was thrown from her chair by the police officer, police brutality is an ongoing issue here in the United States and police body cameras is a possible solution. What is a police body camera? From the Macmillan Dictionary it states that a police body camera is a…

Lastly, many officers commit unfair actions, overstep their boundaries, and blatantly break the laws when detaining suspects. Police officers are obligated to remove threats to society, otherwise there would be chaos within society. Be that as it may it does not excuse their actions on people who for all they know is a regular person,“Police responded to a police station to take custody of a person wanted on a state warrant. When they arrived, they encountered a different man — not the subject…

individual officers are accountable for each and every action. Real accountability method is significant if the police are capable enough in achieving their gaols of legitimacy and lawfulness, as explained by National Academy of Sciences. As mentioned by Kersbergen & Waarden (2004), legality links with the expectation that action of police is both constant and lawful with fulfilling the expectations of public (Kersbergen & Waarden, 2004). Legitimacy and lawfulness, as a result are important if…