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Did anyone ever try to imagine how life will be in this city when police brutality becomes a common routine of behavior? In recent years, LAPD brutality has indeed become a coercive repression for all LA residents. Since the early 1960s, the problem of LAPD brutality has emerged as one of the most controversial social debates. This controversy between the LAPD and all LA residents has never resolved to any good solution, and both of them have been strongly opposed to each other. Over the past few decades, police brutality of the LAPD has even sparked more intensive debates throughout the city. People have often engaged in massive protests and are urged to carry out the silliness silences of injustice and unfairness. I believe any police officer’s act of brutality is definitely considered as a dishonor to the department and to public and should be expelled from the department immediately.

However, in response critics regarding the LAPD police brutality, not everyone agrees the same thought with me. In her 2011 published journal “What Biases Exist in Police Decision Making?” Christine Orrey makes the exception and understands the use of force by police. Orrey is a law-specialized journalist on ProQuest Education Journals. In the view of her thoughts, she claims that “In most police decisions, there is time to consult manuals or policies, time to consult with peers or superiors with more experience, or time to think through possible options. This is not the case with split-second decision-making, when the processes of rapid cognition rely quickly and exclusively upon information stored in the subconscious mind” (Orrey 2). Orrey argues most polices’ decision makings are solely relied upon on their subconscious minds, as opposed to th...

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...at to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so” (28). As Hall points out, officers’ use of deadly force is never considered as justifiable unless it meets the upper standards. Indeed, all other illegal use of force by police officers is considered as an act of police brutality.

Ever since the first formation of the LAPD in 1869s, controversies such as police brutality and misconduct have always been associated along with its history. Police misuses of authority have been caught on media for numerous times. Police brutality is also becoming a new symbol of threat for almost all LA residents. Although there are some advocates who understand the excessive use of force by police officers, there should not be any exception to tolerate police officers’ use of brutal force.