Police Brutality By Charles Shaw - 1777 Words

Police Brutality Abstract In the 1970’s the American government used the SWAT team in an estimate, few hundred times a year, however, in the recent days, there has been over 40,000 military style raids a year. Looking at the statistics from the National Counter Terrorism Department released in 2011, the number of private US citizens who were killed by terrorists in that year were 17. From a film by Charles Shaw, it is documented that at least 500 innocent Americans lose their lives to police brutality. 5000 have lost their lives since 9/11. The is equal to the number of US soldiers who died in Iraq. The facts raise questions about the effectiveness of police in the society. This is more because, allegations of police misconduct rarely result in convictions. It is, therefore, vital to look at the issue and to find answers to the following questions a) What is the main cause of the police brutality? b) Who are the primary victims of the police brutality, in terms of race, social class, and gender? c) What courses of action are taken against the police who use brutality on citizens? d) What law should be put into place to decrease the number of police brutality cases in future? If the answers to these questions are presented to the US government, changes are likely to be realized by the private citizen. Introduction On November 2014, a St. Louis County grand jury decided that a police officer, Darren Wilson, would not face trial for shooting and killing an unarmedShow MoreRelatedReasons For The Civil Rights Movement1436 Words   |  6 Pageslevel. During that time African Americans were mistreated and fought for their equality. Who was involved in the civil rights movement in Buffalo? One person involved was Charles Hamilton Houston and he was Brown’s lawyer in the supreme court case Brown v. Board of Education. He desired and fought for equal education. Charles was among those who surveyed American society and saw racial inequality and the ruling powers that promoted racism to divide black workers from white workers. Another personRead MoreThe Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)1699 Words   |  7 Pagesenvisioned. SNCC’s disorganization came from its origin as a youth run committee with multiple focuses. In April 1960, Ella Baker, executive director of SCLC, invited many African-American student leaders of the recent lunchcounter Sit-ins to meet at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. By bringing together the front-runners of the movement, Baker planned to help organize, and unite the Sit-in movement. One of Baker’s strongest messages to the youth leaders was to avoid assimilating into theRead MoreThe Controversy Of Graham Gained National Fame After A Video Surfaced2608 Words   |  11 Pagesin the Baltimore protest-turned-riots that arose after Freddie Gray died from a broken spinal cord that may have resulted while in police custody (Levs et al.). Protests began after Gray’s death by people who felt that this situation was one of many that indicated widespread police brutality. When Graham saw her son holding a brick presumably to then throw at police along with other rioters, she became very upset and ran after him, hitting him and yelling for him to â€Å"go home†(Levs et al.). GrahamRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesus a very good reason to believe that the uncle is dead but gives only a very weak reason about the cause of death. Maybe the uncle did drugs but got hit by a truck. So, answer (a) is best. (The best information would be the coroners report or a police report on what caused the death, but you don’t have that information to use.) 13 hints on this topic. One hint is to avoid accepting inconsistencies; they are a sign of error. We made use of this logical-reasoning principle when we noticedRead MoreManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pageswhen she returned to her native country of Burma to visit her sick mother. That visit occurred during a time of considerable political unrest in Burma. Riot police had recently shot to death hundreds of demonstrators in the capital city of Rangoon (the demonstrators had been protesting government repression!). Over the next several months, police killed nearly 3,000 people who had been protesting government policies. When hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators staged a protest rally at