Police Brutality Report

For many years police officers in America have been able to abuse their authority and caused unnecessary and excessive violence towards the civilians in their own community.

There are many current problems with increased Brutality and different people who encounter police brutality experience it in different ways. Police brutality, can be expressed verbally, physically and emotionally. Ask of police brutality include excessive force, false arrest or imprisonment, wrongful prosecution, unreasonable searches and rights to pretrial detention meant detainment. America has been ranked with one of the highest rates of police brutality in the world and has been ongoing for many years. Police officers who demonstrate police brutality have gone

unpunished for many years making the topic more popular within society. Citizens in the community that have been affected by police Brutality are becoming very angry and frustrated with the fact that police who abuse their authority extent of death have a gone unpunished or the punishments have been to light or unfair. Many citizens have come together in order to make police officers Who demonstrate police brutality to have more serious consequences, especially if the police brutality results in a civilian's death.

For many years police officers have gone on punished unpunished for their unruly actions of police brutality against the civilians within their community.

Police officers in America have either had a minor or no suitable consequences for their actions of police brutality. The civilians that have experience this want justice for the lack of punishment on police. American police brutality has many worldwide popular stories, one of the biggest cases of police brutality without punishment was the Michael Brown case where an unarmed African-American boy was shot and killed for no reasonable reason. In the case Brown had shoplifted from a local convenience store and when confronted by the police he fled and when the police caught up with Brown he had turned around and began to walk towards the police officer with his hands in the air. The police officer then shot him 12 times. (Lucas Jackson, 2014, New York Times) this police brutality case proves that police in America use aggressive force unnecessarily and can go unpunished regardless of the extent of the force used when trying to apprehend someone. American police officers barely get convicted with murder or assault when they demonstrate police brutality. "Only about 20% of the officers arrested or ever convicted of murder or manslaughter " says Philip Stinson, and associate professor of criminology at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University. (Stinson, 2015) this proves my thesis because it is statistically proven that less than a quarter of American police officers will get convicted or charged when they use deadly force to apprehend there suspects.

It is unfair that these police officers can commit these unruly and unnecessary actions and not receive fitting punishment for their actions.

A Lot of American Police officers abuse their authority and use excessive and unnecessary force when trying to apprehend their suspect and should use more appropriate and reasonable methods to apprehend suspects.

The American police system has it procedures that all police officers must follow in order to maintain a safe environment and apprehend suspects safely and properly. Police often do not follow these procedures would you not take them seriously and because of that the suspects become victims to police brutality add the police misconduct. The law enforcement needs to use better methods to apprehend suspects under reasonable terms. The amount of force that a police officer may use is dependent on how the police officer perceives the situation that they are in. "There is a set of training that is designed to help officers deal with situations that become escalated because of emotions and because the person they're dealing with might have mental challenges” says Tracey Meares (2016, Juleyka Williams ) this proves that some police officers do not go through proper training and they are unfit to deal with different situations because of their emotions. On proper training leads to police brutality and police misconduct within a society. Police officers often take situations out of proportion and use unnecessary means, some police officers use illegal or outdated methods causing police brutality. "The New York Police Department officer whose aggressive arrest of resident Eric garner led to his death has denied using an illegal chokehold to subdue him. “ says Josh Sanburn. (Stanburn 2014, New York Times). This quote proves my thesis showing that police officers use excessive and unnecessary force to apprehend there suspects and it leads to the police officers not getting suitable punishments for their actions.

Police demonstrate police misconduct and police brutality wrongly and unnecessarily and their negligence and unruly behaviors are taken lightly with no consequences and should be taken more seriously.

Police brutality is and current problem and an apparent concern in many different parts of America and the consequences should be taken more seriously and make police officers more responsible for their actions.

Police officers in America should face more serious and suitable punishments if there is a fatal outcome when apprehending a suspect. Police officers in America who demonstrates police brutality and cause death do not get punished over their action because it is considered to society as lawful and reasonable. Police should receive a greater form of punishment if the victim of the police brutality has serious injuries. More serious consequences to police officers will encourage them not to demonstrate unnecessary and excessive actions to the suspects they are trying to apprehend. Tulsa officer Betty Shelby fatally shot 40 year old Terence Crutcher on September 16 2015 and filed with the charge of first degree murder after Shelby (2015) “reacted unreasonably by escalating the situation from a confrontation with Mr. Crutcher, who was not responding to verbal commands”. If convicted, Shelby faces between four years and life in prison. Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett (2015) said “Our goal now is to ensure that this never happens to another innocent citizen, we’re going to break the chains of injustice. We’re going to break the chains of police brutality.”

This case relates to my thesis because its shows that when a police officer uses excessive and unnecessary methods to apprehend

their suspects they should be sentences with a great punishment so that other police officers can learn from that and not demonstrate police brutality.

Police Officers Charged With Murder, Manslaughter has triples In 2015, the number of U.S. police officers charged with murder or manslaughter for on-duty shootings has tripled this year, a sharp increase that at least one expert says could be the result of more video evidence.

In the past, the annual average was fewer than five officers charged. In the final weeks of 2015, that number has climbed to 15, with 10 of the cases involving video. This relates to my thesis because it shows that the in percentage at which American police officers are getting charged due to a fatal outcome of a citizen has only risen by 10% which is very low for a very crucial topic and needs to be more publicized.

The consequences should be more serious for police officers who perform police brutality and police misconduct and the topic of police brutality should be more publicized so the public can be exposed to the seriousness of the topic.

Police brutality is and current problem and an apparent concern in many different parts of America and the consequences should be taken more seriously and make police officers more responsible for their actions

Police brutality is still apparent in today's society and should be more published around the world. There are many issues involving police brutality that need more recognition so that police officer should receive the punishment they deserve for their unlawful actions. Cameras, gun control and more serious consequences are should be incorporated into today’s society in order to end police brutality and make the world aware of its harm to society.

All people should have justice for their actions and should have appropriate consequences for them. Police officers should face more serious consequences for their actions.

All police officers should wear a camera while on duty in order to have accurate evidence to show weather police brutality is apparent so we can show society it need to come to an end.

With the wearing of cameras police officers will know that every action they take will be recorded and used against them ensuring they do everything lawfully. The camera will also provide evidence of police brutality or unnecessary and excessive force is being used unlawfully towards citizens in the community. In Cleveland 4 police officers were able to keep their jobs because the actions they performed were justifiable and lawful by video evidence provided by body cameras. In a sign that body cameras may not just be a tool to expose police wrongdoing, footage from March was made public so a grand jury ruled that the officer's' use of force was justified. This relates to my thesis because this case shows that it is possible for officers to properly enforce the law and use deadly force under certain circumstances and use them reasonably and not unnecessary and excessive performing police brutality. A police officer in Atlanta had shot and killed a 16 year old who had been wrecking cars with a small knife. The officer had said he feared for his life and believed it was the best solution.

The importance of video was highlighted with the release of footage showing a Chicago officer fatally shooting a teenager 16 times.

The officer said he feared for his life from the teen, who was suspected of damaging cars using a small knife. He also had a powerful hallucinogen in his bloodstream. This relates to my thesis because demonstrating the importance of situational analysis and how police officers do not use discretion and uses unnecessary and excessive force when not necessary, and that they should face consequences when they demonstrate police brutality to a citizen.

All police officers should wear cameras because with the cameras police officers will use more discretion when making unlawful and unnecessary decisions as well their punishments will be justified by the action recorded in the video they perform on duty due to the body cameras.

A main focus for police brutality and police misconduct and control in America.

Gun control is important because with more gun control policies the chances of fatal outcomes due to gun related violence will decrease and police officers will not have to use deadly force when encountering a suspect.

The amount of unrecognition gun control has in the American society is very low.

Most fatal outcomes caused by police officers have happened due to the suspect having possessions of a unregistered firearms. “At this time of writing this article, there have been 821 incidence of people have been shot and killed this year by police, and of those, 649 of those killed possessed a deadly weapon at the time, while 614 followed violent crimes i.e. shootout, stabbing, hostage situations ,assault Etc. “ says the Statistic America Firearms (2015) . Statistic show that the leading cause of murders and deaths in America are caused by firearms and guns. Roughly 14,249 murders were committed in the United States during 2014. Of these, about 9675 or 68% were committed with firearms, 22% are from police officers. This relates to my thesis because it shows that the increase in gun control has led to ongoing police brutality and police misconduct and police should face more serious crimes for handling situations unreasonably and

unlawfully.

Gun control is an ongoing and a parent concern in the American society.