Police Brutality In America

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Police abuse has violated many humans’ rights in the United States. In the past decade, after 1992 with the King Rodney riot many polices have shock the world with their behavior and make citizens think “are police servicers really following the law and doing their job correctly?” Now a day, in the media we are exposed to see severe beatings, unfair shootings, super harsh treatments and deadly chocking’s from policies all over America. What upsets the people in America is that people are doing all they can to stop police brutality, yet it keeps on increasing. Also that majority of this cases go “unnoticed” or “forgotten cases.” Through history it has also been seen how nothing is done, instead violence rates increase upsetting many people that …show more content…

Well, every year police brutality worseness and no justice is done, there are many factors that contributed to this issue, but through studies and investigation we will see how police brutality indeed has worsened all over America. Like mentioned previously, police brutality happens all over America, but it has been reported that police brutality happens more in fourteen of America’s largest cities. The cities reported are: Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis, Washington D.C, Philadelphia, Providence, Boston, Portland and lastly San Francisco. I find this important to speak about because people die unjustly. I have explored and examine plentiful online scholars that indicates specific information on police brutality. The articles that I will be presenting on are professional analysts and are dedicated to researching these kinds of specific topics, police brutality. Now, the main question of this research is, since the 1992 riots has police brutality actually worsened in the United States? Overall, this research paper will be discussing police brutality in the United …show more content…

Authors, Mather, Winton, and Chang go into a deeper understanding of how police brutality is increasing, and how the LAPD wants to maintain a fine balance with the citizens in the city of Los Angeles. Yet it is hard to come to such agreement when police don’t know the area or the people in the community and instead decide to abusive of others verbally. One of the people interviewed in this article totally agreed that police brutality has highly increased when she says "I want to be very clear: Having more police officers there is not about having a greater presence in terms of an occupying force," Garcetti said. "This is about making sure that we have cops that we know, and that can immediately make a crime spike not become a crime wave." According to the authors, Garcetti isn’t the only one who think police brutality has increased, along with her are many other people that feel policies should take time to think before acting so

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