Police Brutality in NYC Police brutality is the use of excessive physical force‚ including beating citizens with hands or batons‚ or using guns‚ and even lethal weapons. For the vast majority of citizens‚ this is something they never have experienced. Many police officers go their entire careers without ever having to draw their weapon or even engage in a serious physical confrontation in order to protect themselves or the public from an offender. A very small percentage of law enforcement
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PER REPORTER: The incident happened on Sunday‚ October 15th. McComb Police was suppose to call in a report but they didn’t. CPS received a call from McComb Police Department from Officer Bruce Gatlin. He stated the child was at the hospital and hadbeen abused. When the reporter arrived at the hospital‚ mom said she had been at work that day. She left for work at 6:00 a.m. Mom works in Jackson‚ Louisiana. Mom said she got home and noticed a knot on Logan’s head; there was a red mark. Mom said she
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For years‚ the police force has been jeopardizing the rights of human beings while receiving no repercussions. The government’s and the police’s tolerance to reoccurring acts of horror continues to occur‚ causing police brutality to be one of the most serious human rights abuses in the United States today. Standards for what constitutes brutality vary widely‚ though‚ two major international human rights treaties‚ to which the United States is a party‚ explicitly prohibit police abuse. The International
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Law Enforcements Cross The Line “It begins with a relatively minor incident: A traffic stop. A burglary. A disturbance. Police arrive and tensions escalate. It ends with an unarmed black man shot dead” (Somashekhar). Already a total of‚”896 people shot dead by police this year” ("Investigation: Police shootings"). The 31 of which were of a weapon unknown‚ which means‚”could not determine whether a person was armed because of conflicting accounts from witnesses or a lack of information‚” (Somashekhar)
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officers are the agents of enforcing the law‚ and the police play a very significant role in promoting peace. There are policies that guide how the police maintain law and order and which describe the growing series of actions that an officer can take when resolving a situation. These policies recognize the rights of the people‚ and that the police have the instruction to respect them even when enforcing law and order. Despite that the police have authority over the common person‚ they do not have
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While police brutality is only recently taking the media by storm‚ it has been a large scale issue in the United States for over one hundred years leading to various riots‚ petitions‚ and presidential panels. In 1938 at the time of a great riot regarding police brutality the National Negro Congress stated “Our lives‚ our homes‚ our liberties each day are made less secure because of unrestrained and unpunished police brutality” in their petition against police brutality (Contemporary Police Brutality
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Writing an Argument Assignment MGT/521 Writing an Argument The first essential thought to an argument is to understand the basis of that argument. Each speaker would want to determine the purpose and align their thoughts and sources for credibility and validity. Communication skills are important as well as determining the proper channels when presenting an argument. Four steps demonstrate how to present an argument fairly for both parties. The argument topic is on the use of Wikipedia. The
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Roles of Police and Media Police officers have many roles in the community. The media has a way of spinning the facts to where often times the police officers are made to look a certain way. Even though the media is just telling the story the way that they perceive the events as happening‚ the media spins the story to gain an audience whether it is on T.V.‚ in a newspaper‚ or on the internet. The media portrays the crime fighter‚ the social servant‚ the order maintainer‚ and the crime preventer
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all know as a police officer their job is protect us citizens while trying to detect and fight crime. Because that is their job we trust them to always do the right thing and do right by the law. Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. There are hundreds of cases all around the world about police officers harming and even killing completely innocent people leaving hundreds of families with broken hearts and no answers to why an innocent life was taken daily. This is known as police brutality. Because
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POLICE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE POLICE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Justice begotten at a cost is justice lost. The fact is lost sight of by the present administration of justice. Justice is a natural right. It is the sine qua non andraison d’etre of social grouping. Justice in a social environment have to be as natural as sleep or oxygen to a living being. Free and fair justice is the leges legum of human rights. The proficiency of justice administration has to be assayed
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