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THE FUTURE OF POLICE BRUTALITY Essay Research

THE FUTURE OF POLICE BRUTALITY Essay, Research Paper


THE FUTURE OF POLICE BRUTALITY


This report is going to cover the future of police


brutality, what it is, where and when it happens, and what


we can do to stop it.


We as the public need to realize that there are always


two sides to any story. When we hear that someone was


injured of even killed by a police officer we automatically


think that the officer was wrong for what he did, when in


reality he may have been saving his life or the lives of


others. Most police officers don?t go out on patrol


looking for some one to hurt. Most of the time when some


one has a run in with the law it is for good reason. You


might here that John Doe was shot to death by the police


while he sat in his car Saturday night, but what you


probably won?t here is that John Doe had a 9mm pointed at


an officer, and he was a murder suspect. If you only heard


one side of that story then it would be easy for you to


assume that the police shot up poor Jon when in reality,


Jon and anyone else should have known that if you point a


gun at a police officer then you are probably going to get


killed.


On the other hand this also works the other way too.


You might here that Officer Curtis was killed in a car


crash while on duty last night. What you might not here is


that Officer Curtis was chasing down an escaped murder.


The point is that if you only listen to one side of the


story then it is easy to think that things happen for no


reason, when there is a good explanation for them.


Although many cases of police brutality can easily be


explained there are many more that are actual cases of the


police using excessive force. I am sure that everyone saw


the video of the Lousiana State Trooper who was yelling at


the lady and pulling here out of the car before she could


ever get her seat belt off. If this was a dangerous


criminal then it would have been justified but the only


thing that lady was guilty of was speeding, hardly a


serious crime.


There was a case in Los Angles where a man was stopped


for drunk driving and hit the officer when other officers


arrived they handcuffed the man placed him on his stomach


and six officers sat on him. The man later died, the


officers said that they were trying to restrain him. I


have a

hard time believing that it took six officers to


hold down a drunk man who was handcuffed on his stomach and


had been doing cocaine. An autopsy showed that there were


a number of factors that could have been blamed for the


mans death(blood alcohol level, cocaine in his blood, the


officers setting on him while laying on his stomach,) all


of these things could have been the reason that this man


went into cardiac arrest. Because of all the other


possibilities the officers were cleared of any and all


wrong doing.


Some places such as New York, and Los Angles have a


much larger problem with police brutality than places like


Delaware, Ohio. One reason could be because of the higher


crime rates in those areas. Police officers may be afraid


if they let problems evolve into a confrontation where they


are on the defensive then they my face bodily harm, so they


take matters into there own hands, Also some police may be


tired of taking out Americas trash, so they are taking out


there hostility on every other criminal. Both of these


reason are not really acceptable because the police know


what there job is going to be like before the put the badge


on so they should just mellow out for a while and just do


there job like they are supposed to. In the future I don?t


think that police officers will be able to get away with as


much beating up of criminals as they do now because sooner


or later someone is going to go to far and do something


like assault an off duty police officer and then they will


be in trouble for assaulting one of there own and they


won?t be able to hide from that.


If people start to see the police get in trouble for


their actions the maybe they will start to have a better


attitude towards them. On the other hand if the police are


always getting in trouble then criminals may think that


they can provoke the police into assaulting them so that


the police actually get in trouble for doing there job and


the criminal will probably get millions of dollars just for


getting assaulted when they probably deserved it.


So the public faces a tough decision. Do we crack down


on a police officers authority to do what is needed to


apprehend a criminal to keep a few officers from abusing


their power or do we simply catch the officers who are out


of line in sting setups?

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