Brutality or Self-Defense

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it may not be needed and could be avoided.” Being trained poorly often leads officers to result in more violence. People believe that officers are “trigger happy” which causes them to wanna use their gun instead of calming down the problem.

The “Black Panther Party” was a voice for african americans back in the 1960s. Their goal was to monitor police brutality in Oakland, California. They practiced self-defense from brutality. Their original goal was to stop violence and brutality in the black community and help black oppressed people. Although African Americans were victims of hate crimes. They still remained strong. Eventually many members were hurt and killed, the FBI destroyed the movement. This group did not hate white people either. They kept fighting to make a change in the minorites. They influenced america as a whole, giving black a chance for a voice. The issues hasn’t changed in today’s time either. The only way for things to workout is for the government to help the ones who truly need it. Consciousness is the key to ending this racism war.

Although officers may encounter dangerous people, they still have to do their jobs. Just because they encounter someone who was being reckless, just robbed a store, or held them at gun point it doesn’t give them a right to be brutal to them or shot and kill them. No one understand what someone goes through on a daily basis whether it’s the suspect or the officers. This is why the training of an officer is very important.

Some people feel as the public is quick to judge an situation and call it brutality. Many people feel as the public doesn’t understand the pressure that a police officer goes through on a daily basis. Although, it’s the officer’s job to serve and protect, the deserve to be protected also. Being the uniform, are people like you and me who also need to be protected, even if they are wrong.

Even though some people feel as police brutality isn’t harmful or disturbing, others view officers to be oppressors. Police brutality should even be a thing in my eyes. If you comply with law enforcers their should be no reason for brutality. There shouldn’t be any killing of racial profiling or being strangled to death by a police officer when their job is to serve and protect. Law enforcement across america should function as a force together to handle escalated situations professionally with civil manner. The more police brutality we have the more cruel the society will be.

We can only eliminate this world wide problem if we come together and join as one. Law enforcements stopping this problem can only be achieved by administrative organs. The administrative organs should also have a board where citizens give their opinions about things. This will help encourage officers to choose alternate ways to handle the people they come in contact with on a daily basis. If the police departments show the communities that they work in that they wanted to help and not harm them there would be less problems in them causing less brutality. This will only make their relationship with the community stronger and bring trust to the officers.

As a result to my research that I have done on the brutality caused by police officers, I have found that it was impacting the African American community greatly. There are many situations where the leading officer abused his powers and had no punishment. This causes the black community not to trust them. The growth of shootings happening to innocent unarmed African Americans is ridiculous. The officers who basically “get away with murder” and not lose their jobs creates a wall between the police and the community causing it to become unfixable.

If police had more training with how to handle situations involving weapons and disrespect from suspects the rates of crime and brutality would drop tremendously. They should go held responsible for their every action like any other human being who isn’t above the law. We need to start a healing process before it becomes the people vs. the police. We need to come together as one and get closure for the unanswered deaths we have in America today.

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