There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported each year and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after lawsuits. Police officers have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons‚ chemical sprays‚ and electro-shock weapons; they have injured or killed people by placing them in dangerous restraint holds. This is the first paragraph of an
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Persuasive/Policy/Problem/Cause/Solution Central Idea/Thesis: Police brutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity. INTRODUCTION I. Police brutality is constantly made known to us all through mass media‚ but I hadn’t ever taken the time to truly grasp the severity of it until it hit close to home. A. Three weeks ago‚ a close family friend was brutally beaten in front of his children at a family gathering by the police. B. My purpose is to persuade my audience that police brutality should be regulated with greater
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In recent years‚ police actions‚ particularly police abuse‚ has come into view of a wide‚ public and critical eye. While citizens worry about protecting themselves from criminals‚ it has now been shown that they must also keep a watchful eye on those who are supposed to protect and serve. This paper will discuss the types of police abuse prevalent today‚ including the use of firearms and receipt of private information. I will also discuss what and how citizens’ rights are taken advantage of
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Mass media has followed the events of police brutality‚ and their unrighteous killings which consequently have caused the nation to question the police.Many americans feel the treated by the police As of yesterday the law of integrity and social justice reform has been officially passed.The law is implicated throughout all states in the united states.After recent events concerning the black lives matter movement Obama thought it was pivotal to make one last assertion to the movement during his
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may think that the police is going too far‚ and others will say that the citizen in the video might have done something that made that person deserve what just happened. People can take footage out of the video to make one side look bad and the other look better. Just by watching the video‚ you can’t tell whether who is at fault here. My issue is about whether police should wear security cameras on them on all times and to keep them on the whole time. Lately‚ police brutality has been becoming another
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Alton sterling‚ Philando Castile and Gregory Gunn are just 3 out of 136 African Americans whose lives were taken by police officers this year. Those were not the only lives that were taken in 2016. Not only have these men lost their lives for unfair reasons‚ their families have lost somebody so important in their lives. Police brutality with black people is a serious issue. If these 3 men were white wouldn’t these stories sound different? Alton Sterling was 37 year old black man from Baton Rouge
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ago I was in Dallas and visiting my family. On Sunday after church I went with six other men to Chick-fil-Afor lunch. We ordered lunch and started talking about politics and then we ended up talking about abortion. One of the men who was a Dallas police officer told an example where a teenage woman who have underwent the procedure of aborting her child and was devastated with sadness and guilt. I retorted and said that does not mean that the law of abortion is at fault‚ it is the fault of that girl
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Some police are becoming more dangerous because they are often violent toward people‚ some are becoming criminals themselves‚ and some are abusing the power of their position. Some police are becoming more dangerous because they are often violent and aggressive towards people. One of the reasons is they are becoming more militarized in their training and mind set. A candidate for the washingtons 8th congressional district said “ beat cops have been replaced by special ops.” This tells us all that
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existence in general which relates to his idea of the coherence theory of truth and how evidence is required for ideas to be made. An ontological argument is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God by referring to the meaning of the word or by referring to the purportedly unique quality of the concept that is God. An example of this argument is the Pros logion of St. Anselm where the monk tried to provide Christian documentation for the existence of god. The relationship between C1
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