Essays on Police Brutality

Crime is the number one thing you see on the “Breaking News” portion of the news, specifically gun violence. Whether it be a drive by or a shooting in a school done by someone outside or by one of their very own students. Firearm brutality,…

Police brutality is one of the biggest problems in the United States. Police officers aren’t doing their jobs appropriately. People are being shot and killed by police officers. The confrontations the police officers get in to can sometimes get violent. These confrontations can lead to…

For many Americans, the presence of the police and the work of the justice system is that of security, safety and order; an authority provided by the government set to protect the people of its country. However, for a significant amount of American people this…

Before we begin talking about how to better protect our law enforcement officers and teach our communities to properly engage with them, we want to give a little background information on the history of police and civilian interactions. Often, when things turn south in a…

Police brutality occurs when police officers use excessive physical such as shooting, beating, and fatally choking the individual. It also includes the use of force as well as verbal assault on an individual. Citizens and the police have different definitions of police brutality. From the…

Police brutality involves the mishandling, mistreating and the use of overly excessive force by law enforcement on suspects or civilians. The term can also be used when correctional personnel use similar abusive force in the penal facilities. Within the last few years, cases of police…

Annotated Bibliography – Police Brutality in the United States Police brutality is a pressing issue that has become more prevalent in the past year in the United States. Throughout the year 2015, there have been over 700 cases of police brutality. There have been numerous…

In 1967 the Detroit riots happened as a direct result of institutionalised racism. At that time it has been recorded that of the 93% of white police officers that worked for the Detroit police department 43% of them were working in black neighborhoods but were…

When citizens elect their leaders, they ascertain that security is paramount as they entrust the role without any doubts whatsoever to the individuals concerned. However, since the leaders cannot partake of the role by themselves, they delegate the role to the authorities that work for…

Forty three percent of police officers agree with the statement, “always following the rules is not compatible with getting the job done” (“Police Brutality Statistics”). Police brutality is becoming a more serious phenomenon than it has ever been in the past. Police brutality has been…