Color Vs Police Brutality
People of Color vs. Police Brutality
Tamir E. Rice. Michael Brown Jr. Eric Garner. How many more unarmed minorities have to be unjustly murdered before someone starts to listen? The problem is not the community. The problem is not the peaceful protests that police have transformed into a vicious assault on the very people they are trained to serve and protect. The problem lies along the roots of law enforcement, the system itself. Police brutality against unarmed people of color is the sole fault of police officers and desperately needs to be stopped.
There is an increasing number of African-american victims of police brutality that are unarmed when they are shot; 32% of them, to be exact (Swaine). No pistols, no knives, nothing …show more content…
The average indictment rate of police brutality against african-americans is 13% (2012 Supplementary Homicide Report, FBI). This is simply an embarrassment of the judicial system when the indictment rate of police brutality against white Americans is a staggering 63% (2012 Supplementary Homicide Report, FBI). With a 50% difference between the two, this implies the superiority persona officers of law enforcement believe they have when it comes to minorities. To stand in a police officer’s shoes and think one can walk away from shooting an unarmed person of color because the judicial system will not indict them is a dishonor to everything law enforcement is supposed to stand …show more content…
There are good cops too? Compare that statement to a tap water system, per say. Every time a glass of water is poured from a refrigerator, one trusts that the water that is safe enough to drink, one trusts a clean glass of water without having to change it in any way. If the system is not filtering out the “bad stuff” that is undrinkable, then that system is corrupted in some way. In order to fix that system, one must locate where the exact problem is and thoroughly solve it so the system will pour a clean glass of water. The same concept applies to police officers. If there are “good cops too,” this implies the “bad cop” persona as well, which is being covered up instead of filtered out. Similarly with the tap water, if there is nobody to locate the problem and solve it, “bad cops” will not be filtered out. The cycle will continue until somebody from the system understands that there is a problem. Until somebody starts to listen. Until somebody finds a
Tamir E. Rice. Michael Brown Jr. Eric Garner. How many more unarmed minorities have to be unjustly murdered before someone starts to listen? The problem is not the community. The problem is not the peaceful protests that police have transformed into a vicious assault on the very people they are trained to serve and protect. The problem lies along the roots of law enforcement, the system itself. Police brutality against unarmed people of color is the sole fault of police officers and desperately needs to be stopped.
There is an increasing number of African-american victims of police brutality that are unarmed when they are shot; 32% of them, to be exact (Swaine). No pistols, no knives, nothing …show more content…
The average indictment rate of police brutality against african-americans is 13% (2012 Supplementary Homicide Report, FBI). This is simply an embarrassment of the judicial system when the indictment rate of police brutality against white Americans is a staggering 63% (2012 Supplementary Homicide Report, FBI). With a 50% difference between the two, this implies the superiority persona officers of law enforcement believe they have when it comes to minorities. To stand in a police officer’s shoes and think one can walk away from shooting an unarmed person of color because the judicial system will not indict them is a dishonor to everything law enforcement is supposed to stand …show more content…
There are good cops too? Compare that statement to a tap water system, per say. Every time a glass of water is poured from a refrigerator, one trusts that the water that is safe enough to drink, one trusts a clean glass of water without having to change it in any way. If the system is not filtering out the “bad stuff” that is undrinkable, then that system is corrupted in some way. In order to fix that system, one must locate where the exact problem is and thoroughly solve it so the system will pour a clean glass of water. The same concept applies to police officers. If there are “good cops too,” this implies the “bad cop” persona as well, which is being covered up instead of filtered out. Similarly with the tap water, if there is nobody to locate the problem and solve it, “bad cops” will not be filtered out. The cycle will continue until somebody from the system understands that there is a problem. Until somebody starts to listen. Until somebody finds a