How To Prevent Police Brutality

Police officers are abusing their authority by brutalizing and even sometimes killing people. These attacks have been video recorded and put on social media. Police brutality has been a trending topic on social media because of the rising cases involving police using excessive force and the recordings of these events. Many famous cases have spiraled from police brutality including Michael Brown, Rodney King, and Sandra Bland. Seeing this has made people start to protest and riot. Others have been trying to come up with ways to prevent police brutality. Police officers jobs are to protect and serve their community.

An African American male named Joshua Beal was shot by an off duty officer in November of last year on the Southside of Chicago. Beal was a part of a funeral procession and was stopped in front of a firehouse because he was blocking the fire lane. The stop led to an altercation and Beal was approached by an off duty firefighter, an off duty policeman and a third policeman.The altercation started to heat up when a police officer pulled out his gun and started firing shots. Police stated that he had a gun that he would not put down. Later on Beal died because of te gun shot …show more content…
Additionally, there are hopes of ending it altogether. One example of how to do this is have officers trained in racial bias. It has been found that officers will decide what to do based on their own stereotypical thoughts about a certain race. For example, a white police officer might shoot a black suspect because he believes all black people are criminals. Officers in California started to listen to the suspects instead of just acting on their bias that they have towards them because of what race they are. They heard them out and listened to the full story before they acted. This reduced compliance issues and increased cooperation from the suspect