Police Brutality Research

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). The majority for the weapon unknown deaths are 11 blacks. The 82 shot to death this year were unarmed civilians, of whom 29 were white, 31 black, 17 hispanic, and five of other race. “However, black men accounted for 40 percent of the ‘82’ unarmed
Blacks are strongly affected by police brutality and biased judgments. Recent months have made police brutality hard to ignore and pose an unexpected challenge to the government, thanks to the black community that isn’t willing to put up with the corruption in the Police Departments. A black movement for the social problem has erupted since the shooting of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014,” That incident sparked a national movement to protest police treatment of African Americans and turned 18-year-old Michael Brown into a putative symbol of racial inequality in America”
White America was shocked at what they saw police doing to Rodney King. Black America would have loved to have been shocked but black America only could have been shocked if what the police did to Rodney King was something completely alien to their community experience, was something they couldn’t imagine the police doing in their community. There’s a Rodney King every day in this country and black America has always known that. Everything those cops did to those protesters they’ve done to someone else when there were no video cameras rolling; They’ve done it and they’ve gotten away with it. They know just how much assault and battery their Department will let them commit; They know just how many false arrests their Department will let them do; They know just how much latitude their dept gives them on abusing citizens. They do it because they know they can; They do it because they know they will get away with it. None of these officers will be disciplined in any way; None of these officers will be charged with the assaults and batteries that they committed; None will be charged with false arrests; None of them will lose a day's pay. The Police Department doesn’t need an investigation; They’ve already said the officers acted appropriately. If the Department does, by some miracle, discipline anyone for what happened this