A solid metal is dropped from the height of 64 feet. How long will it take for the solid metal to hit the ground? Ignore the air resistance.…
On the other hand, another citizen states, “The police are not the enemy. Although they kill many people, many police are also killed. What we need [is] a debate about police behavior and training” [8].…
One of the main conflicts occurring in the United States today deals with police brutality and the relationship between police officers and their communities. Two Books Argue the Case for Police Reform From Within, an article in the New York Times, stated that approximately one-thousand people in America are killed annually at the expense of police officers. This number is shocking to many due to the fact that the amount of violent crime and deaths of on-duty police officers has decreased greatly and continues to do so. This article talks about how police enforcement abuses their powers and how they are thought to have too much power which leads to this abuse. It discusses cases that deal with the Fourth Amendment right of American Citizens and where police have used deadly force in instances that it was not necessary, leading to a movement known as Black Lives Matter.…
In the article Police Violence: American Epidemic, American Consent, published in The New York Times, Sept 26 2016, Charles M Blow states that it is a mistake to focus on the actions of a single officer, since this is a problem right across society.…
The purpose of this paper is to examine the rationale behind police brutality in correlation to social perception of immunity for law enforcement. There have been multiple reports where civilians have stated that they did not get involved in a crime in progress or an incident of police brutality because they feel that the officer will not be punished. This presumption leads to not only a lack of accountability on the part of the officers, as they fear no reprimand, but also on behalf of the bystanders who subsequently facilitate a means for these behaviors to continue. Instead, these bystanders pull out their camera in hopes of attaining 15 minutes of fame. While fear may take precedent over all other reasons for not getting involved, for these…
Police officers are vital in our everyday lives because they’re known and serve as reliable forces that aid in protecting our rights and ultimately, our lives. Law enforcement, and police officers in particular, have secured a lot of media coverage recently because there have been multiple cases where through excessive force, police have fatally shot and killed civilians. While it may be known for police to do this if it is necessary and for their own safety, some specific stories have been globally exerted because of the unlawful reason behind the killing and verdict of the police officers at fault. In a book assessing criminal justice, Robert E. Worden believes that on a theoretical standpoint, there are situational factors that are the cues…
Police and the public may have a different outlook of hard-core criminals becoming victims of violence. The police have to remove their bias ways to solve the victim case (Karmen, 2013). The police has to follow what is ethical correct. They must think on a level head. On the other hand, the police have a duty to serve and protect the community.…
Therefore i will be explaining the conflict going on about police brutality in the world today. Though what goes on with the police may seem wrong you never know the other side of the story. Police brutality happens for many reasons, one reason is because many departments don’t provide adequate training in nonviolent solutions. Another reason is because standards for what constitutes brutality varies widely.…
United States police play a very important role in the lives of U.S. citizens today. Their duty is to serve and protect us from harm, but often times this may not be the case. Americans are made to believe that these officers will serve and protect us, when in all reality police are more interested in enforcing the law and making arrests. The police often overstep their authority and begin acting as if they are above the law. Police brutality has become an ongoing topic amongst American citizens for quite some time now. Police often use excessive force physically, which often times results in death or severe injury to citizens. Police have…
Mass media has followed the events of police brutality, and their unrighteous killings which consequently have caused the nation to question the police.Many americans feel the treated by the police As of yesterday the law of integrity and social justice reform has been officially passed.The law is implicated throughout all states in the united states.After recent events concerning the black lives matter movement Obama thought it was pivotal to make one last assertion to the movement during his last days of the presidency.Congress had an early morning session for the reform discussion .The session began with many disputes arguing on the new reform longevity wise and cost wise.The new reform is about retraining police officers to create a better…
Our topic is on police brutality. This has been an ongoing problem in our society for many years now. Many people believe that police officers do use excessive force when patrolling on the streets with civilians. The main social problem for our topic relates to the use of excessive force. Excessive force can cost local communities millions of dollars due to legal damages. Most civilians now do believe that all police officers are bad due to all of the drama that has been occurring throughout these last few years. People believe that the main reason why this excessive force takes place is because of racism. Dudek talked about a situation that took place in Ferguson, MO. He stated, “The killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO,…
BAM! You just watched a video of a cop that just grabbed an, at first glance, innocent citizen. People may think that the police is going too far, and others will say that the citizen in the video might have done something that made that person deserve what just happened. People can take footage out of the video to make one side look bad and the other look better. Just by watching the video, you can’t tell whether who is at fault here. My issue is about whether police should wear security cameras on them on all times and to keep them on the whole time. Lately, police brutality has been becoming another issue. We can’t just trust what people show on the internet, it can be totally bias. If the police had a camera strapped on their uniform, then…
Police brutality is a major and colossal problem that plagues the United States on a daily basis. Not only does it affect the citizens and people that the cases happen to, but it affects their family when he or she is put into the Criminal Justice system. The headlines in the news that grab the most attention is for police brutality and how much punishment was afflicted on the suspect before he or she stopped resisting to the police officer. In a study regarding police brutality cases conducted by researchers, most of the officers reports about the situations that happened and the suspects were totally opposite (Evaluation of Use of Force, July 2010). Claims of police brutality sometimes exist to get some free benefits from society without needing to work. There comes a time when police are subjected to unnecessary backlash and insults…
However, for police officers and other law enforcers is in their everyday lives and it just grows bigger and bigger as time passes. “As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the acquittal of five Los Angeles Police Department officers in the street torture of Rodney King, it is urgent to once again examine how police violence shapes our everyday realities in different and contradictory ways” (Rodriguez 303) shows how police brutality is in U.S citizens everyday lives. Just because it does not happen to us or we do not see does not man that is out there. The way that the government does not press severe criminal charges against the officers who perform such fatal events is just indescribable. In the article “Racism and Police Brutality in America” by Cassandra Chaney and Ray Robertson explains how “...racism shapes this discourse” (Chaney and Robertson 480). This shows how police officers being racist is a big part of them abusing their power against minorities. Police officers are taking out their range on minorities when they commit simple crimes such as traffic violations. “Policemen are authorized to write their own rules” (Maddox and Alton 13) . This quote from “Police Brutality: inside rules, outside laws”shows how officers not always use their power correctly and could bring drastic consequences to both the residents and the law…
Throughout our readings, it became clear that police are forced to deal with the burdens of our society’s inequalities, while politicians often ignore them. The politics of criminal justice are put in place in order to fix society and reduce crime, yet we are constantly seeing legislation, such as legislation to do with the War on Drugs or the War on Poverty, that seems to increase crime and even worsen racial and class divides, while the intention was the exact opposite. With the legislation still in place, police are forced to deal with the burdens created by this legislation. These burdens sometimes go on to reinforce society’s inequalities. Meanwhile, politicians often ignore these new or reoccurring problems, because in the eyes of the…