The Causes of Police Brutality

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affected by police brutality is the story of Juanita Young. She and her family were swarmed and attacked in her back yard by the police when her son was being arrested. Juanita is a legally blind grandmother who did not commit any crime but still was treated like she had done something horrendous. Ever since that day the police arrested her son she has been fighting with groups to get rid of dirty cops and police brutality (New York Amsterdam News).
Many organizations have been formed to stop this madness our police officers are bringing to the streets of our communities. According to research one of the biggest causes of excessive police force on citizens is race.
“The October 22nd Coalition also forcefully condemns Mayor Charlie Luken's attempt to quash dissent by declaring a State of Emergency. He adds insult to injury by imposing a curfew on a community already under siege in response to allegations that a policeman was shot at. For years, Luken and other government ...

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gets pulled over. The police also need to be retrained with new training techniques because the public should only be answerable to the kind of police it chooses to have. The public are the ones paying taxes so that the police have paychecks every month, so doesn’t that mean we should be treated fairly and not have to be afraid of the very people that we pay to protect us.
“For those people who feel racism is not a factor in causing the use of excessive force, here is a startling fact. In Tampa Bay, Florida, five men died while in the custody of the Tampa Bay police Department (C.C. 27). The thing is, the Tampa Bay Police Department is made up of mostly white officers, but of the ...

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