Minorities in the community have been subjected to violence by law enforcement in the United States for some time. This violence is called police brutality and it is unacceptable. The job of a police officer is to maintain public order, prevent, and detect crime. They are a part of a dangerous and stressful career that can involve risky situations that must be controlled. Sometimes police are put in situations that excessive force is needed. Some officers use these extreme measures in situations when it is not needed, police brutality should be addressed by testing police for for racial bias, require more training, and use body cameras.
Bias is the favoring of or against one thing, person or group compared with another. Most of us have bias towards certain things and a lot of people do not even know that they do. The most common people have forms of bias and that includes police officers. The difference is that police officers have the power of life or death in their hands. They have the power to use the force that they think is needed in a given situation, that's when the bias comes in. Shaun King has been studying police brutality for the past 2 years and he said “ If I had to pinpoint two or three consistent themes in all of those cases, racial bias would have to be one of them. Now, some cases where police officers flat out use
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People think that the cops are not racist but the stats are that the blacks commit more crimes. They are not wrong because it is a proven fact. Mac Donald interviewed several African American police officers who believe that the police are not racist. According to her, the police target blacks more than whites because more blacks commit crimes. The black officers said “that charges of racism undermine the good work of police departments across the nation.” This proves that becasue of some police officers using bad insticts at time that all cops get the bad rep of police