Police Brutality: When is Deadly Force Justified? On February 4th, 1999 at 12:44 AM an unarmed black man, Amadou Diallo, found himself in a storm of bullets coming from four white New York City police officers. In total, forty-one shots were fired and twenty-one of those found their mark, as the twenty-two year old stood on the balcony of his apartment building. The four police officers never wore uniforms and drove through neighborhoods in unmarked cars looking for occurring crimes or people carrying guns.…
Police brutality is becoming a major problem in today’s society. It has been an ongoing issue throughout the world. As society grows, the existence of police brutality become more of an issue. The issue posed by illegal use of power is ongoing reality for people of a disfavored race or sexual orientation. Police brutality remains as one of the most divisive human rights in the world.…
Steven Magee once said, “Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government”. (Magee) There are as much good police officers as there are corrupt ones. There are as many good people in society as there are bad. There is as much good in society as there is bad.…
Allan Geary Mr.Murphy 7 January, 2015 Police Brutality in America In result of the recent events and heavy media coverage like the case of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the controversy of excessive force and police brutality has become more renown than ever before. The use of excessive force by police officers has been growing despite the protection offered in the Constitution for citizens against such drastic measures. The term “Police Brutality” and what it encompases appears to have a varying definition with the justice system. Police Brutality is formally defined as the “wanton use of excessive force, usually physical, but also common in forms of verbal attacks and psychological intimidation, by a police officer.”…
Police Brutality in America has become a new plague, it has infiltrated our country, and has exposed a dark side of the justice system. Thousands of cases involving police brutality are reported yearly, and thousands of incidents go unreported as well. Incidents of police brutality go unreported because of fear. The American justice system is being ran by fear, causing uncertainty for citizens of America. The terrifying idea of waking up to a news report stating that a person has died at the hands of a police officer for no logical or specified reason has become a reality in modern day America.…
There are many Hip-Hop artists that have made an impact on Police Brutality, Such as Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, The Game, and The biggest impact of them all N.W.A. They all have made an impact on the topic police brutality. For every 1,000 people killed by police, only one officer is convicted of a crime. In 2015, there were 1,307 people who lost their lives at the hands of a police officer or law enforcement official. In 2016, that number was 1,152.…
White people are automatically protected and given the benefit of the doubt when confronted by the police by having white privilege. White privilege works in our world in many ways; it provides white people with many advantages and immunity to challenges people of color face. The protection of whiteness shapes the world we live in and is not easily deconstructed in any system. For example, a person of color, especially a black person, is not guaranteed the same treatment by cops that are given to white people. In Philando Castile’s case, he did everything the officer asked of him.…
Police brutality is a big epidemic in today’s society. Police brutality has taken over the news and the lives of people. Police brutality is a bad thing that is going on in our world, it remains one of the most serious divisive human rights violations in the United States. Police need to take responsibility for their actions. They need to face consequences for what they have done, people are starting not to trust the police, and now the police have too much power.…
Also, Americans often argue whether police brutality is targeting blacks or is the media just covering more on blacks then other Americans. Lastly, question and concern have been brought up on how to prevent police brutality significantly. Furthermore, Police brutality is racially motivated which can be prevented using non-lethal weapons such as Tasers and body cameras. Also, the government should be giving…
Per the Denver Post, more than three out of five African Americans say they or a family member have personal experience being treated unfairly by police, and that their race is the reason. The very first time that I heard about police brutality was when the police attacked Rodney King in Los Angeles California. On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed pursuit. After King was caught, the officers pulled him out of the car and beat him brutally, while an amateur cameraman by the name of George Holliday caught it all on camera. The four L.A.P.D. officers involved were eventually indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, and also excessive use of force by a police officer.…
“Other forms of police brutality can takes place when a policemen falsely arrest someone, verbalized wording, racial discrimination, and improper use of firearms” (Alpert 2001). The effect police brutality have on African American males…
Policy Brutality Introduction Being a police officer comes with a ton of stress, and it also comes with being in very dangerous situations. Over the last decade, police aggression/abuse has become a serious issue in the United States. The police also has a very strict rules about the use of force and aggression, and those rules should be followed at all times. Unfortunately, police officers have done many cruel things to bring this question upon. Are police officers taking advantage of their authority?…
Racism seems to be one definite explanation as to why so many police encounters end with an officer using excessive force on an African American individual. Racism is fueled by hate, and decays our morality. This hate causes people to dehumanize certain groups of people, which…
The days when officers were viewed in a positive light has declined and now they’re viewed of as trouble and a threat. Here lies the conflict, African Americans feel threatened by the people who are in some ways responsible for their protection, while the police feel as though African Americans are the threat towards society in some ways. Because officers jobs are significant in that their actions could be the cause of someone living or dying, and that on a daily basis, they could interact with people of different races they need to be able separate the stereotypical thoughts they have at work. As I stated earlier sometimes this happens implicitly. An officer may be overly aggressive with a black man because in his head he’s thinking black men are aggressive and tend to not listen to authority so I have to be more forceful.…
Prejudice or racial tensions have become a fore fronting scapegoat for police brutality. Individuals have accused police officers and vice versa of being racists and treating them of lesser quality as other races. “Although black men make up only six percent of the U.S. population, they account for forty percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police this year.” (Kimberly, Fisher, Tate, Jenkins) That means that African-American males create a little over half of the population shot by police officers this past year.…