Police Protect African American Citizens
To Serve and Protect
The police role and how they use their power To Serve and Protect others suggests two important facets of police work it’s centrally protective role and it’s service orientation. Do police protect and serve everybody equally? Protect the community fairly? Which community? For both good and bad reasons, American society does not comprise a single community but many and though these communities overlap and intersect in many ways they are often separated and ranked. Unarmed black males have most often been the victims of excessive police force. If the police that are supposed to entrust for people’s protection of body and property are no longer responsible for protecting them, people must question their purpose …show more content…
citizens. Police’s duty is to serve and protect people, but often times that may not be their only purpose. U.S. citizens believe that officers will serve and protect everyone equally in reality some officers overstep their authority and start acting as if they are above everybody and the law. According to washington post, there have been 708 documented deaths in police shootings in 2016 and 173 were the deaths of African Americans. In many cases most of these victims are African Americans that were not served fairly by the law that are supposed to protect and serve them. In one of known cases, the victim named is Michael Brown 18 years old was shot by police officer Wilson. The suspect wanted to run away from him so officer just use deadly force to solve the problem. “All I saw was his head, and that’s what Ishot,” Wilson recalled during grand jury session in St. Louis.
The author of this text use language to make this problem known. The author used juxtaposition in this text, “You don’t want to work with us and we don’t want to work with you. You were the one who photographed us and shared your slanted stories on Youtube.” The quote is basically saying that if you’re not going to do or follow what we tell you to do, if all you do is put the bad things out there for people to see about us we can’t be there for you to protect and serve you. This language is juxtaposition because the writer is trying to prove a point by putting things together for
The police role and how they use their power To Serve and Protect others suggests two important facets of police work it’s centrally protective role and it’s service orientation. Do police protect and serve everybody equally? Protect the community fairly? Which community? For both good and bad reasons, American society does not comprise a single community but many and though these communities overlap and intersect in many ways they are often separated and ranked. Unarmed black males have most often been the victims of excessive police force. If the police that are supposed to entrust for people’s protection of body and property are no longer responsible for protecting them, people must question their purpose …show more content…
citizens. Police’s duty is to serve and protect people, but often times that may not be their only purpose. U.S. citizens believe that officers will serve and protect everyone equally in reality some officers overstep their authority and start acting as if they are above everybody and the law. According to washington post, there have been 708 documented deaths in police shootings in 2016 and 173 were the deaths of African Americans. In many cases most of these victims are African Americans that were not served fairly by the law that are supposed to protect and serve them. In one of known cases, the victim named is Michael Brown 18 years old was shot by police officer Wilson. The suspect wanted to run away from him so officer just use deadly force to solve the problem. “All I saw was his head, and that’s what Ishot,” Wilson recalled during grand jury session in St. Louis.
The author of this text use language to make this problem known. The author used juxtaposition in this text, “You don’t want to work with us and we don’t want to work with you. You were the one who photographed us and shared your slanted stories on Youtube.” The quote is basically saying that if you’re not going to do or follow what we tell you to do, if all you do is put the bad things out there for people to see about us we can’t be there for you to protect and serve you. This language is juxtaposition because the writer is trying to prove a point by putting things together for