Police riot

sufficient. The cops recognized the complex social institution, of the social import and the effectiveness as a community support of control.The character of the Vietnam protest is not comparable in any meaningful way to the character of the inner-city riots(Hoover, L.T.(2014). We all know cops are to only use force if necessary. It depends on the situation you are in at that time. The goal is to gain control and protect the people. I know sometimes excessive force has to be used if someone is…

land. However, today police corruption has only increased. For example, (Sheldon, 96). Sheldon stated that since both of these theory have failed police corruption has become a phenomenon currently. However, there is evidence to suggest that police corruption is not the problem. To illustrate,…

recent events, tensions amongst American citizens and police officers have risen due to the alleged use of excessive force and the unjust shootings of African Americans. In the aftermath of such incidents, the integrity of police officers nationwide has been questioned, raising the issue of whether or not police should wear body cameras. Based on the increasingly recurring reports of such incidents, body cameras do need to be implemented into police forces in order to regain public trust. On…

protests, after all, that’s what most viewers would rather see. In Birmingham and Fruitvale, news picked up and spread the happenings of both the protests. The difference however is the fact that MLK’s protest remained non-violent while the Fruitvale riots were violent, leading to the military crackdown of the protesters. Another reason that non-violent protests got more attention is because, back then, they were still a commodity and was very rare up to that point. As non-violent protests…

Andrew Faubel Final Project English 1520 24 August 2015 Police Brutality in the United States Imagine that you are driving down the highway, probably on your way back home from a long day at work. There aren’t many cars on the road, so you decide to speed up in order to get home faster. While speeding, you’re also most likely on the lookout for police officers, making sure they don’t catch you breaking the law. I feel that this is a fairly common occurrence for many Americans. Speeding isn’t…

Police Body Cameras: Police officers are receiving more criticism recently than they have ever had before. This recent distrust comes from the events in Ferguson, Missouri when an unarmed black man was shot by a white police officer. The public believes that the black man (Michael Brown) was shot because of race. Many people believe that if the police officer was wearing a body camera then the true story could have been caught on film and the outcome would have been different. Due to these…

teenage boy was shot and killed by a police officer causing riots over and over where police were using extreme force and some deadly force. Police officers do use deadly force when they really don't need to at all. Police officers use deadly force because they have a heavy loadout which they sometimes are used wrong, and that some shoot before they think, and because some have grown up being influenced by movies and shows where cops were they shoot on cite. Police will tend to have very…

Policing the Police, writer and historian Jelani Cobb investigates the problems facing the Newark Police department. The film specifically follows the gang unit whose main focus is getting guns off the street. In the background Cobb explains what he is witnessing and what he’s learning from it. Cobb explains how the police can only stop people with legal justification, but 75% of the time there was no legal justification. There is no trust between the members of society and the police and vice…

SHOOT! Since police officers have been put in place, they have been expected to protect and serve citizens. And yet, in this day and age, people have come to fear police officers as time goes on. There were 987 fatal shooting victims by police in 2017 and only four months into 2018, there have been 329 victims shot and killed by police making 28 more fatal shootings this year than around the same time last year. Despite over 1,300 victims of police brutality, only around 20% of police are…

The public has taken matters into their own hands, by marching and creating riots to demand change. A march took place in Ferguson in honor of Michael Brown. Protestors carried signs that said “Hands up, don’t shoot”. The group was there to march for injustice and demanding change locally and nationally. This was cry against police violence. When Staten Island grand jury didn’t indict Pantaleo, citizens in New York and San Francisco gathered to protest. On December 4 and 5 more than 300 people…