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Police Brutality: What's Really Going On? - Papers

Police Brutality: What's Really Going On?

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"Police regularly utilize varying levers of abuse, threat, and
torture to extract confessions and demonstrate police effectiveness in
fighting crime." Kerwin Brook. That's what the question is, is this a
correct thought or are the police and their technics misunderstood?
To understand why this "brutality" happens lets see what a police
officer goes though when they are pulling someone over. First they need to
be stopped, and that's where I think the majority of the problems might
occur. If someone runs from the police it creates a dangerous environment
for the police officer as well as the other people caught in the chase
which creates a stressful and not a very safe atmosphere, ...

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they were doing the right
thing.
The police that the author talked to said they would have reacted
the same way and most of the police officers that were interviewed said
that was the right thing to do. Some said they weren't rough enough.
What people saw in this case was the police officers beating Mr.
King without mercy. I don't think that's what happened I think that's what
people wanted to see. "What people think they see in a police incident is
not always what happens" Sergeant Stacey C. Koon.
Now what the public thinks is a different story. According to the
author "the people of the United States of America think the police are
brutal and not only that but out of control." Greenhaven Press.
The people think in the case of Rodney King that the police
officers were brutal and inhuman. This is interesting to me because the
public didn't see the whole incident and are passing judgement early
without even willingness to hear the police officers side of the story! ...

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Added: 12/7/2006 05:09:28 AM
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