Police Brutality and Accountability: A Disturbing Overlook

Police brutality against unarmed black men is currently a very highly overlooked issue in the United States of America. The men and women that vow to protect and serve for our nation have been murdering innocent unarmed African Americans and not getting any type of punishment for their wrongful actions.

August 2014, Police killed Michael Brown an unarmed black teenager. This set off protests and brought more attention to police killing unarmed black men in Baltimore, Chicago, and other cities. In most of these incidents, the office never gets charged with a crime. Which increases the thought that police are not held accountable for their actions. This has all started a movement called Black Lives Matter (Police Brutality).

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Some police departments, particularly in the South, violently suppressed these marches. In Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, for example, protesters demanding an end to segregation were beaten by officers, sprayed by high-pressure fire hoses, and attacked by police dogs (Police Brutality).

Nowadays they are just killing instead of using “old” tactics. Police officers have also been widely known to attack racial minorities more often than others. For example, in a paragraph from an article about police brutality:

At the time of the nation’s founding in 1776, the decentralization of police power was seen as a safeguard against government oppression and tyranny. Nevertheless, local police departments in the United States of America often used repressive and illegal tactics, particularly against criminals, members of minority groups, immigrants, and others labeled undesirable (Police Brutality).

It is almost as if police officers have set a goal for themselves since they have started to protect and serve our country, and that goal would be to get rid of as many “undesirable” people as they possibly