Police Brutality
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How many reports of police brutality go unsolved? How many police get away with the crime of brutality? Police Brutality is common everywhere in the United States. Although society may not hear a lot about police brutality, it occurs more often than we know. Through out history the aversion of police brutality has been kept under cover. Now society will see the controversial problems of police brutality.
"Abuse by law enforcement officers in the United States is one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the country. The via lotions persist nationwide, in rural, suburban, and urban areas in the country, committed by various law enforcement personnel including local and state police, sheriff's departments, and federal agents. Police have engaged in unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal chokings and unnecessarily rough treatment. While the proportion of repeatedly abusive officers on any force is generally small, responsible authorities—including law enforcement supervisors, as well as local and federal government leadership—often fail to act to decisively to restrain or penalize such actions" (Novick 13). Police Brutality is a national epidemic swiftly sweeping across our nations. Many think police brutality is merely a problem that exists only in our police brutality or that police brutality is exaggerated. Although some of this is true police brutality exists in even some of our richest communities. As stated
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by William F. Jasper "An ugly act by a few has been transformed instead into a media event and a political event to undermine law enforcement. This is why police brutality is considered a serious crime in the United States
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