Essay On Police Brutality In To Kill A Mockingbird

Over the years, our nation has witnessed countless cases of police brutality. It has developed into a controversial topic between communities. For instance, deindustrialization is the removal or reduction of manufacturing capability or activity can lead to more crimes when people are laid off. Police officers are faced with many threatening situations day-to-day gripping them to make split second decisions; either to expect the worst or hope for the best. The police are given the authority to take any citizen away for their action that can ruin their lives. With that kind of power comes great responsibility, which is one main concern with the amount of discretion officers have is when to use lethal force. The use of excessive force might or

Nonetheless, there is an extended way to go until the world is free of inequalities. Injustice, the unfair treatment of individuals through actions and words based on stereotypes, which lack of knowledge and fear have fueled throughout the generations. However, the frequency of this injustice from the period of the 1930 's in Harper Lee 's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is made known through the unfair treatment of people based on racial discrimination. In the words of Jem, they don 't fit anywhere, therefore; colored people won 't have them since they are half white and the whites don’t want them because they are non-white (p161). For example, Trayvon Martin case the media were preconception toward Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman focusing more on sensationalism, rather than seeking the true facts in the case. Through displaying Trayvon’s pictures as an innocent boy and Zimmerman as angry in his mug shot. Attempt to build the story into an ethnically incident, meanwhile the media were neither entirely clear nor accurate, in addition; the investigative approach were not sufficient in either depth or extensiveness. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder. The 1984 Crime Control Act was passed so the person does not commit any Federal, State, or local crime during release. Yet, that act seems to fail for some people like Zimmerman, who had eight run-ins with police after his