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Police Brutality Police brutality has been a problem in society ever since we can remember. Even though police brutality is a subject people don't want to talk about, we have to realize that no matter what we do, police brutality, police corruption, racism, and politics are components of police brutality.Police Brutality involves police misuse of physical and mental force such as: the use of physical and deadly force, chronic verbal abuse of citizens including racist and homosexual slurs, and "discriminatory patterns of arrest" (Fighting 2). Each one of these problems is serious and very degrading to the law-abiding citizens.Police misconduct adds to a high percentage of police brutality
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Boltin 2
Faith Boltin
Ruffin Reynolds
ENG112-K6B
6-12-2018
Argument Essay
Everyone feels devastated hearing news about someone’s death. People die every day some from natural causes like diseases, some die from being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and some die in the most unacceptable poor way. Which is by the hands of people who are believed to be the ones who catch the criminals, not the ones who commit the crimes and these misconducts have a bigger impact on the world than many people can imagine. Police brutality has been going on forever and has only recently been a bigger issue due to videos of crimes committed by cops. Police brutality is not beneficial to society
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Behind Police Brutality: Public Assent
To the extent that language provides cues for behavior, the orders that American governors, mayors, police chiefs and block association presidents have been giving cops on the beat in big cities over the past few years are unambiguous.
As James Alan Fox, dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, notes, these officers have been told that they form the front line in a "war" on crime and a "war" on drugs, that they have been enlisted in special "operations" and drafted for bold new "offensives."
"We use all these paramilitary terms," Fox said, "and we have promoted somewhat of a siege mentality among police: The enemy is out
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/person who served in the military) famous people like Al Sharpton. While both the younger and older (people who use action and strong words to support or oppose something) both trace their family to the (the right to vote, to free speech, to fair and equal treatment, etc.,) movement, they seem to match up/make even themselves with different parts of that family tree. And in (more than two, but not a lot of) ways, these modern tensions are updates of the disagreements that marked the earlier movement.
Board, The Editorial. “Political Lies About Police Brutality.” The New York Times, 27 Oct. 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/opinion/political-lies-about-police-brutality.html?partner=bloomberg
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Eric Garner, who said, "I can't breathe," during a fatal altercation with New York police. "We must tell the people ... 'Don't wait till tragedy knock on your door. Start doing something now in the communities to help your neighborhood, help your communities.'"
Reference(s):
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mothers-movement-speak-democratic-national-convention-speech/story?id=40882052
http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/police-reasonable-force-brutality-race-research-review-statistics
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/denver/law-enforcement-nationwide-track-use-of-force-differently-based-on-self-reporting-by-officers
http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/06sf/force.html
http://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/
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Wardell Henderson
Amie Schaumberg
English 102
October 5, 2018
Causal Essay (Draft)
Why has trust in law enforcement decreased among America’s citizens of color?
America has had a long, painful and hidden history of police brutality. America's first police and law enforcement officials were slave catchers, which had no police training or instruction what so ever, just unscrupulous individuals that made a living hunting down slaves who were only seeking freedom.
The actions of police in certain U.S. cities -- including Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New York; and North Charleston, South Carolina -- have recently come under scrutiny after black men were killed while being apprehended by
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Police Brutality: How Are Politicians Reacting To Police Shootings?
Recently police brutality on African Americans has frequently been reported on by news
sources and has been a controversial topic to talk about in America. All over the United States,
people have fled to the streets in protest of police shootings. Most of the demonstrations,
organized against police brutality have been by the organization known as Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter is an organization whose sole purpose is to bring to light how African
Americans are “systematically and intentionally targeted for demise” (“Herstory”). They gained
popularity after being involved in the protest against the acquittal of
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the United States.
To better extrapolate why law enforcement officers are being recommended to wear body cameras, eyes must focus back to one of the pivotal points in our history of police brutality. In the 1960s is when police brutality began. Social inequalities and discrimination against minorities; specifically, African Americans was extremely rampant in this era (Nodjimbadam). During the mid-1960’s there was a law that was enforce to banned any discrimination based on a person’s race, sex, national origin, color, and etc... This law was The Civil Rights Act. This act ended segregation through the work force and even schools. In addition, it also banned unequal voting rights. The law
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2018). The main priority being to target visible crime in areas, and increasing visibility of police presence with the aim to reassure people that the police are 'on their side'.
Police brutality has been an issue for many years, and it remains a major concern for those of the minority community. Over the past five centuries, black people have endured violence in many different ways (Shane 2018). Today, police officers use deadly, excessive force that leads to inexcusable assaults, beatings and shootings. This demonstrates the government’s role in initiating and prolonging racial suppression and provides the explanation for police brutality to become a federal crime. In history, racist violence
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, our nation has 778 people that have been shot dead by police officers this
year. Cities like Detroit and Baltimore who have some of the highest crime rates in America
need ways to put an end to their crime. People should realize that the use of body cameras
would benefit everyone, yet it is the government's decision whether or not to implement these
cameras. If all police officers use body cameras, crime rates and police brutality will probably
decrease. On the other hand, if they do not use them they may stay where they are currently or
even become worse. Unfortunately, Dylan will never be able to see this world again. Now he is
just one of the hundreds of people that die from police
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BOJ Lens:
· Agitation- occurs when a group has grievances that aren’t being solved/need to challenge social order
· Establishment- anyone who can make decisions and enforce them
· Ex: government, schools, media, police
· What are normal means of protests?
· Letters, voting, press, coverage
· Two kinds of agitation
· Vertical deviance – accept the value system of the establishment but dispute the distribution of benefits or power within that value system
· Liberal, want a piece of the pie
· Ex: police brutality– get rid of the bad apples
· Lateral deviance- when agitators dispute the value system itself
· Radical, this pie sucks, we want a new one
· Ex: police brutality- get rid of the
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Profiles Spike Lee was born on March 20, 1957, to bassist and composer Bill Lee and Jacqueline Lee, a schoolteacher. He completed undergraduate studies in 1982 at Morehouse College and a degree from New York University Film School. He produced, wrote, starred in, and directed more than ten movies between 1986 and 1998. These films appealed to the hip hop generation because they could connect with the conflicts depicted in the movies. These movies cover police brutality, racism, and a yearn for black empowerment. Also controversial issues like interracial love, a black woman's sexuality, sexism in the black fraternities, and deep fissures of race and class in the American society. Today I
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Song Analysis - Trapped by Tupac
Shakur
Karen Menasherow
Issues related to the song
- Police Brutality
- Profiling
- Gang crime
- The reality of being a black man
Tupac Shakur
- Born on June 16, 1971 and died on September 13, 1996 due to a drive-by shooting
- Considered by many to be one of the greatest hip hop artists of all time
- Born in Harlem, New York, then relocating to Los Angeles in 1988, he became a
central figure in West Coast hip hop
- Heavily involved in East Coast - West Coast rivalry, particularly with fellow
rapper Biggie from the East Coast (NY)
- During this time, gangsta rap was dominant in the mainstream but Tupac
introduced social issues into this genre as well
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conducted that’s less than a fifth of the number of stops that was conducted in 2012.
This issues with stop and frisk are that some police officers over steps their boundaries and use weapons or deadly force when not needed when doing a stop and frisk. Police officers racial profile people but 87% of people who get stop and frisk are blacks and Latino’s and there mostly younger looking men, they seem to say that younger men are likely to look like they’re going to get into some trouble. Other issues are the arrests, abuses, and brutality from civilians even requesting the reason for police stopping them in the first place.
The positive side about stop and frisk is when police officers actually do
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enforcement. “Police brutality and continued murdering of black and brown people is a race problem and a gender problem, and the intersections of the two – embodied daily in our sons – are within our power to influence. A white mother would never have to prepare her son to be aware of police officers and the upfront racism that they display. Their many cases right now in the US where the police officer has killed African American and was not penalized or the incident was not treated as a crime. As a mother of a teenage daughter, I feel as if I still have a conversation about what is happening in society today with African-American males because it is important. As I quote Dr. Martin
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officers. They proceeded to assault Alex and abusing him, almost killed him because he had enquired about the legitimacy of their search by asking for a search warrant. The main idea in the video is racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and to some degree, police brutality. In this context, police brutality is a subset of racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is the unfair treatment of an individual based on their race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin. It can also occur when a policy or rule appears to treat each individual in the same manner but may have an unfair effect on more people of different race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin. Race and
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of unarmed
black men being shot and killed by the police have brought this issue the the attention of the
media. "The succession of highly publicized police killings of unarmed African Americans from
2013 to 2016 seems to have exaggerated the long-standing pattern of polarized responses by
race” (Race and Reaction 2017). When looking at these highly publicized instances of police
brutality, it is no surprise that black people are affected on a more personal level than white
people would be. Racial segregation continues to make the black experience invisible to the
majority of whites, who are easily able to ignore their experience of discrimination. Research has
shown that minorities overall
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to gain headway in 2013 after the public outcry after many police
brutality instances were publicized, like the Trayvon Martin case. For those who are not
as familiar with this example as I am, Martin was an african american high school
student in Florida. He was recently suspended from school in relations to an issue
regarding drug residue found on his person. George Zimmerman was a white
neighborhood watch captain and as Martin was going to visit his father during this
suspension, Zimmerman spotted him and reported a suspicious man in the
neighborhood. Instead of listening to the instructions he was given to stay in his car,
Zimmerman instead approached Martin and soon, gunfire was
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group of young high school kids growing up in the environment during that time. A group of friends that grew up in the era of Newark being the car theft capital of the world. While also experiencing a lot of police brutality crimes as well. At the same time being number 1 in crime in the state of New Jersey. As you can imagine those two together pose as a big problem for the community. How can there be peace in a city that is full of crime and police brutality, when the community is apparently supposed to be united. Nick Gomez did a great job of finding authentic actors that were able to give the world insight on a city that was surrounded and troubled by crime.
The opening scene in the movie
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. Thousands of Bolsheviks that aided in the staging of the revolution stood trial. These people were either executed or sent to labor camps for crimes against the Soviet State. By the time the Great Purge ended in 1938, Stalin had gained complete control of the Communist Party and Soviet government.
Historians believe that he was responsible for eight to thirteen million deaths throughout this time. In the United States, the police may not act the same way but still abuses their power. Anywhere today, you could find numerous reports of police brutality or police using their power, whether as minor as driving past a red light to unjustifiably killing someone. Unlike Stalinist Russia, the higher
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