But even if there may be fewer rogue cops who abuse their authority and use force outside the bounds of department rules, it’s also true that, as a matter of policy, police use more force today than they have in the past.
If the police use more force than they used in the past, then that means that it is not better than before.
Most criminologists believe that today’s police departments are more professional than ever before. Cops tend to get more training, and departments are guided by defined rules and procedures.
I don't agree that "today's police departments are more professional than ever before", the police have been being on citizens for decades, especially african americans. and the police do not follow their department rules, and when they don't follow the rules there are know consequences held against them, so therefore it is not better than ever.
America’s police forces are in the spotlight. After the police shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland
if everyone knows that the police are in the spotlight of some crazy things, then why not try to help stop the police from breaking the law.
An elderly man in Ohio was left in need of facial reconstructive surgery after police entered his home without a warrant to sort out a dispute about a trailer.
the officers are breaking the laws just like some citizens, but entering someone's home without a warrant is unacceptable, and then leaving an elderly man left by his self in need of help is crazy.
A Georgia toddler was burned when police threw a flash grenade into his playpen during a raid
before the police do a raid, they should check to see if there are any children around the room, by doing that, they should put a little wire camera under the door to see. because not doing this shows that they don't care who's in the house.
Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for “trespassing” at her own apartment complex in Houston.
how is it trespassing when you are entering your own apartment complex, and why should children be allowed to watch their parents get abused. if it was the other way around, the officers wouldn't want their child to see them getting abused.
Darrin Manning’s unprovoked “stop and frisk” encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle.
just because someone doesn't let you "stop and frisk" them, doesn't give the police officers the right to break someone's body part.
In central New Jersey, for instance, 99 percent of police brutality complaints are never investigated.
if there is a high percentage like that of complaints going on, and nobody is investigates in the situation, then that tells you that there is something going on or they just don't care about the citizens.
Those officers who are found guilty of brutality typically find the settlement to their victims paid from city coffers. Research from Human Rights Watch reveals that in some places, taxpayers “are paying three times for officers who repeatedly commit abuses: once to cover their salaries while they commit abuses; next to pay settlements or civil jury awards against officers; and a third time through payments into police ‘defense’ funds provided by the cities.”
officers shouldn't be allowed that much money, especially for abusing someone. how crazy does that sound, a police officer getting paid three times more than regular pay for physically beating someone.
In January 1997, Kurt DeSilva, 34, was shot and killed by a Pawtucket, Rhode Island police officer after a low-speed car chase. DeSilva, who was unarmed, was suspected of driving a stolen car
low speed chase shouldn't lead to a killing, they say Kurt Desilva was unarmed. so why was he killed when he stopped ? maybe because he was an african american, that shows that their is something going with the police departments.
The "war on drugs," with its overbroad searches and other tactics that endanger innocent bystanders.
the police like to pull over a lot of african americans just to mess with/harm them or just to have something to do. and when they do pull us over, their searches are over dramatic, they try their hardest to find anything in your car that looks suspicious, and when they do not find anything, their going to say that "you tried to harm them".
The fact that police abuse remains a significant problem does not mean there has been no progress. In communities all across the United States people have organized to bring about change, and some of the most successful strategies are described in this manual
police abuse is still a problem, I see some police officers now on social media trying to play with african americans by acting like they are getting arrested, or even stopping and playing basketball with them. by doing that, they are trying to say that there is know hate towards african americans, but african americans like myself will not believe that.
In December 1996, two men in two weeks died in handcuffs at the hands of the Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies in Florida. Lyndon Stark, 48, died of asphyxia in a cloud of pepper spray while handcuffed behind the back in a prone position.
police shouldn't be able to keep putting force on a person if they are in handcuffs, and if your still putting force on someone that is handcuffed is basically saying that your taking your anger out on that person or you just don't like him/her for some sort of reason.
a police chase in Los Angeles ended in an incident that would become synonymous with police brutality: the beating of a young man named Rodney King by members of the Los Angeles Police Department.
the police should not be able to try and stop the driver by hitting them with their car, they should just find another way to get the driver to stop like trapping them.
Videotape by a bystander captured five officers pummeling Rodney King with batons more than 50 times as he struggled on the ground outside his car. The recording immediately sparked outrage, but anger magnified when the officers who beat King were acquitted by a jury the following year.
If police officers are being recorded while harming someone for know serious reason, and goes to court for the situation and keeps getting released has not guilty, that shows that there is something suspicious going on like racism or favoritism.
The US cannot continue to allow those duty-bound to protect its citizens – the FBI, state and local police, anyone – to become that which their community fears most.
Police cannot be allowed to become criminals themselves. They are supposed to protect the citizens.
But new government data show schools in four more states have since put aside concerns and resumed buying the controversial product.
the four states just didn't care anymore and continued to give out pink slime