Police Brutality Research Paper

The police are employed by the government to uphold law and order and protect citizens (Funk & Wagnall’s), in the United States some may say that police are not doing their job. The country is beginning to have a very large crisis on their hands, this crisis is police brutality.

Police brutality is the use of excessive force on a civilian by an officer of the law, such as hitting a civilian when that level of force is not needed (the law dictionary). Police brutality has been happening since the beginning of the police force, police misconduct has become normal due to the development of an organizational culture created within the police organization that passively permits wrong doing by police(Rushin). Due to this police brutality has many

The rate at which police brutality occurs has not changed much, but technology has. With the invention of smartphones, almost every person in the world has a camera in their pocket. Whenever an act of police brutality occurs the incident will most likely be caught on film by a bystander. Once an incident is caught on video the person is able to upload the video to social media for the entire world to see. These advances in technology have made police brutality much more well-known and apparent than it has been in the past. With more attention being brought to police brutality, even if the incident isn’t caught on video it is reported more often than other police officers or by people who are close to the victim. When police brutality occurs it often makes the news, things like this occurring are what has caused police brutality to grow into a much larger problem than it has been in the

If officers are given psychological screening like this then it would be much easier for the government to tell which officers are more likely to commit acts of police brutality. After an officer makes it through the psychological screening they should be required to pass a test that would show if they were prone to commit acts of police brutality and they should be required to pass the test at a minimum of once per year. This type of testing would cut down on the number of officers entering the police force that are likely to commit acts of police brutality. When this happens the amount of police brutality in the United States will go down, causing citizens to have more trust in police officers.

When police are given more training and undergo more psychological test citizens will begin to trust officers more because they know that the officers will be much less likely to commit an act of police brutality. Once people trust officers more they will be less likely to act nervous for feel threatened by the presence of a police officer, instead, they will feel protected like they should. This will also cause the officers to less nervous due to the fact that they would be able to see people feel more