Police Brutality The biggest issue that is arising in America today within police agencies is police brutality. “Police brutality is the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians” (The Law dictionary). Throughout this paper police brutality is discussed an analyzed to conclude its causes and effects. In order to conduct this paper numerous online articles have been examined to produce statistics on this sensitive topic. These articles are written by creditable
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Police Brutality Can you imagine walking into your local Timmies and getting your coffee for free? Can you imagine being able to drive as fast as you want‚ make a u-turn whenever you want and run through as many red lights as you want? Can you imagine having an army of men at your side with one phone call? Can you imagine driving‚ and at the flick of a switch‚ every other car moves out of your way? Seems out of reach for the average person‚ well‚ that is the daily life of a police officer
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between police officers and citizens has resulted in‚ and continues to yield‚ an unfortunate‚ growing number of deaths of both parties. Police brutality has already caused 345 civilian deaths in just 2017 alone‚ according to The Washington Post. Over the past few years‚ police shootings have been gaining increased negative attention in the press throughout the country‚ even to the point of sparking the “All Lives Matter” and “Black Lives Matter” movements. On the flip side‚ the number of officer deaths
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Introduction From the early days of slavery‚ through segregation during the fight for civil rights to the seemingly recent gain in officer involved shootings‚ which may be attributed to advancements in technology‚ African Americans have a long history of experiencing police brutality in America. The rise of social media coupled with new technologies allow us to view many of these incidents for ourselves‚ often causing social unrest amongst other issues in many minority communities. However‚ many
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Kaleb 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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It was in the year 1919‚ when a majority of police forces across North America introduced a futuristic product which has spiked a lot of controversy. The TASER‚ an electroshock rifle invented by Thomas A. Swift was designed as a means to decapitate excessively aggressive suspects without having to use a traditional firearm (Blair et al 2012). Although the idea of a high tech device that gave police officers an added layer of protection may have seemed like a great idea at the time‚ all inventions
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The case of police brutality targeting African-Americans has escalated more and more. The cases of police brutality such as Eric Garner‚ Michael Brown‚ and Freddie Gray have caused sparks in the media (Akkoc). Their tragedies because of police brutality have made people protest‚ and in some cases‚ riot(Akkoc). One of the cases is that of Eric Garner‚ who after refusing to follow an officer’s order‚ was jumped by multiple cops and one put him in a choke hold (Akkoc). Garner repeatedly said ’I can’t
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Police corruption seems to be a problem in the United States as well as most of the world. The simplest explanation why corruption exists is that the police officers are human beings and as such are prone to give in to temptation. Another widely held opinion is that the officers don’t get enough pay. No matter what are the reasons police corruption is abuse of authority and power; it is also betraying to the public trust. The researches proved that in socioeconomic disadvantage countries the percentage
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November the second‚ two police officers named Anthony Beminio and Justin Martin was ambushed in the early hours of the morning. Those two officers were right at home in little Iowa. The things to know about police being targeted is why they are being targeted and by who. Police Officers don’t have to do anything to be attacked. Out of the 132 men and women‚ Those two men are just a fraction of all the officers killed in motivated attacks. According to CNN.com‚ 64 officers were attacked with malicious
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Rashad is a black boy who is apart of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps as his father wishes. He’s a normal teenager who parties every Friday with his friends until one evening he is a victim of police brutality and being falsely accused of stealing when he was reaching for his cellphone. Quinn is a white boy who is well known for his father‚ who died serving his country. Seeing this violence around him‚ especially when the police officer responsible was his best friend’s brother‚ Quinn decides
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