Police brutality is the excessive use of violence against people in different areas of the United States by police. Police brutality is something that is talked about a lot by different people: people of different races‚ genders‚ and age groups. This is a big problem that is happening in the United States and has been happening for a while now. There has been many issues of police brutality in the past few years. Police brutality issues seem to happen the most within the African American community
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After reading and analyzing Black Boy and various current articles‚ I am now able to draw parallels between how whites treated of African Americans in two different times. Coming into this project‚ I knew about present day race issues and the form in which racism presents itself‚ however I have certainly learned many new things about police brutality and what motivates it. Since the early 1900’s and long before(when Richard Wright was growing up)‚ racism has been a frequent theme in America. However
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Police Brutality: A Rising Issue What should society do when the people that are supposed to be protecting them turn into the people that they need protecting from? Police brutality has become a major issue in today’s society and has become a major point within today’s media. As stated by Lauren Fox‚ “The deaths of black men at the hands of police have been thrust into the national spotlight” (Fox). Police brutality is classified as an officer applying excessive and/or unneeded force to the
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Police work is a dangerous job‚ and police are more than likely to be put into situations when excessive force is needed. But‚ sometimes police use excessive force for their own personal reasons‚ such as‚ racism. The issue of police officers using excessive force may or may not be of great concern‚ but it should be looked into by both the police and the public. Because some officers use excessive force in situations when it is not needed‚ police brutality should be addressed. Some may feel as if
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Police Brutality is a tragedy upon us in America. In society we face this tragedy‚ each and every day of our lives. Police officers are the ones who are supposed to prevent crime and stop abuse‚ instead we are being challenged by police officers. They continue to use firearms or weapons when their lives are in danger. If there isn’t a response towards the situation‚ a police officer should not fire or use any weapon of any kind. In my perspective‚ Police Brutality is a serious issue‚ police officers
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protests is police brutality towards the african-american community. Even though people don’t think so there is still a lot of racial discrimination going on in today’s society‚ where black people are being killed for no reason. So Slice got dressed and headed to school where this topic of police brutality had been on his mind all day. For some reason‚ when his teacher Ms.VanZegeren said the class needed to write an essay on problems in today’s society‚ it was a perfect chance for him to express how he felt
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Does race play a Role in police brutality? “Police in America are sworn to protect the citizens‚ however the last few years citizens been sickened by highly publicized accounts of public servants brutalizing men—and women—in the communities”. Police Brutality has been an uprising topic in the past years‚ because of the police having the overpower over many black citizens because of assumption of suspiciousness. Once the police feels threatened‚ they automatically shoot to protect themselves
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Issues involving the police can clearly be seen by the American citizens on news channels and on social media. These issues bring about a great amount of debate and conflict of two opposing ideas about what is perceived as right and wrong as well as good and bad. However‚ if one is to look at the issue of police brutality and compare it to other issues that America is facing‚ he or she can see a reoccurring pattern of human behavior among them. It seems as though it has become a common occurrence
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Lopez English 101 2/26/13 Police Brutality “Police brutality is a civil rights violation that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using an amount of force with regards to a civilian that is more than necessary.” Police brutality‚ a word that was first used in 1893‚ has raised many questions. Some of these are: what are the causes of police brutality‚ and what are some prevention steps we can take to avoid police brutality? Police brutality has been an increasing pandemic
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there are is still no clear explanation on police misconduct‚ however‚ there are some sociological theories that many scholars believe can lead to police brutality. Have listed some theories‚ I believe that allows us to take a deeper look into police brutality. Conflict theory‚ predicts that members of minority groups are more likely to be victims of police brutality(Starr 2015) thus allowing the widening of the black community distrust of the police department.. Let’s take a deeper look into the
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