Persuasive Essay On Police Shootings

Over 18,000 agencies have reported fatal shootings last year (Kindy 4). Police are shooting left and right no matter the race or the gender they are shooting. "The average age of a person killed by police in 2015 was 37" (Swaine 3). This is showing us that police may be killing innocent people like those people may have families and children. Usually people in their thirties are just new to starting families are already have a family but that may be taken away because of the police. "Police will have shot and killed nearly 1,000 people by the end of the year" of 2015. This is the case because police are killing people left and right causing fear and destruction towards the communities surrounding them. Mike Brown how Officer Darren Wilson shot him fatally for no reason twelve times killing him. And this shocked people all around the United States and started a wave of riots all throughout Ferguson, Missouri. It got so bad that the government had to send in the national guard. This is going on throughout the United States because people can not deal with police who are suppose to protect them instead of cause fear to them.
But it does not stop there "464 police killings for the first five months of 2015" (Swaine 1). Police are continuing to kill people this year and some of those people are harmless. “102 of 464 people killed so far this year in incidents with law enforcement officers were not carrying weapons” (Swaine 1). This is showing that the law enforcement are to the point that they are killing people without any weapons and in my opinion the law enforcement aren’t trustworthy. "Police targeting blacks and latinos about 85 percent of the time" (Ranjana 2). The police are looking to get African Americans and Latinos into trouble more frequently. "..29% of people killed by police, or 135 people, were black..." (Swaine 1), Police have killed this many of blacks which is about a quarter of the people killed and sometimes African American are killed without having any weapons on them. “32% of black people killed in 2015 unarmed” (Swaine 2). They are killing African Americans that are not even armed like this is very traumatizing because this percentage is about one third of the people killed by police that were unarmed. But the crazy thing is that it is not just African Americans that face the unnecessary abuse of the police force Like Hispanics face it a lot too even though its a lower number they still face the traumatizing abuse. “25% of Hispanic and Latino people were killed in 2015 unarmed” (Swaine 3). This is one fourth of the people killed in the United States in the year of 2015, and who knows if this number will go up because over the years the racial killings have been going up each year. Also Hispanics migrated to the United States to have a better life from what the were experiencing in their past country but they did not know that they were going to face the same amount of abuse in the United States from the people who are suppose to protect you. The law enforcement are also killing caucasian people as well whether they are armed or unarmed. 50% of people killed by police are white (Swaine 1). This really is a traumatizing number like this half the people killed in the year of 2015. The law enforcement is really getting out of hand like these are innocent lives being taken for no reason and they don 't …show more content…
"Police targeting blacks and latinos about 85 percent of the time" (Ranjana 2). These falsed profiling techniques that the police have came up with to improve criminal profiling has been terrible, and has been hurting families. Those falsified criminals are innocent and are killed because they were thought to be a criminal.This has taken a toll on the United States as a Nation because nobody trusts the people who are suppose to protect us. People of the U.S are scared to trust the police because they are killing innocent people just because of their skin color or their