Why is it acceptable for Police the people who can legally get away with killing you, the people we trust to keep us safe are doing the opposite. One such example is The Rodney King Riots in Los Angles. In some cases violence is the necessary and final option to go too. There are many headline cases but the reality is many will never get reported or if it is there are very few convictions of it. When police attacked, question or harass you because you are a minority is just one sad reality we have
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selflessly and humbly, dedicate their life to the greater good. According to the oath police officers are supposed to embody honor, faithfulness, integrity, character, courage, accountability, community, and wield the public’s trust. The question is: how many police officers are actually like this? How many can purge themselves of all selfish, irrational beliefs and treat everyone equally? I used to believe that most police officers were exactly what the oath said they were with the minority being the
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When will police officers stop killing the innocent who don’t deserve being killed? Are they worth being trusted as heroes? Is leaving home, even safe to go buy a loaf of bread at the supermarket that’s just around the corner? These are some of the questions in some communities across America. According to research from The Washington Post, in just this year 2017, at least 766 people have been accidentally shot to death by police officers from their own community and only 88 people were killed with
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Community policing abroad has been popular, especially in democratic countries. The police from more democratic nations preferred community policing more than zero tolerance (Lum, 2009). The similarities that community policing share with democracy are citizen authorization, power citizens have to contest the police such as citizen review boards, complaint processes, media complaints, serving the people. It takes 10-15 years for full implementation of community policing (Trojanowicz, & Bucqueroux
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Freddie Gray made eye contact with a police officer and the police officer arrested him immediately. It is said that Gray took off with one of his friends, but the police officers soon caught up to them. The other friend chose not to run but he did record the ordeal. This recording of Freddie Gray was the last time anyone would see him conscious ever again. When the police officers caught up to Freddie and his companion, they gave up without a fight and 6 police officers collectively put him in the
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PSI-101-OLA Assignment #1 Due Date: 11/06/2015 On the night of July 27, 2013, the Toronto Police murdered a boy named Sammy Yatim. His death caused all of Toronto to question the authority and reasoning of the police brutality caused by the Toronto Police. The people who wished to do “justice” for him argued the voice of the young Sammy Yatim. They seen the situation as a one sided situation, that being the police simply f***ed up, pardon my French. Although it may seem like a one-sided debate, there’s
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Introduction The Watts Riots were caused by a roadside argument when a black man, Marquette Frye, was arrested for speeding. Frye had been drinking, and was driving with his brother, Ronald, in the car, when the two were pulled over two blocks from their home. While Marquette was being arrested, Ronald retrieved their mother from her house. When Mrs. Frye saw her son being forcibly arrested, she fought with the arresting officers, tearing one officer’s shirt. An officer then struck Marquette’s head
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3, 1991 he was on a high speed police chase going speeds estimated at 115 miles per hour and that is what started the whole sequence of events. He was essentially pulled from his car after being apprehended, beaten by four white police officers as another sixteen policemen on the scene watched. Rodney King was on a high speed chase with police and one of them was named Stacey Koon. When they finally got King pulled over he got out of his car aggressively. Police thought he could be
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Evaluated 51 television news reports frim three networks and five local stations using three complementary analyses: Framing Visual coding Critical spoken discourse analysis - News reporters on the ground at the time framed the events as a police attack. Blamed the victims by reframing the events as a violent provocation. Manipulated public opinion about domestic immigration policy. Introduction - The great May Day marches of 2007 began a new social movement on the issue of immigration
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different individuals who were involved in the L.A. riot. Among them, Rudy Salas, Stanley K. Sheinbaum and Jason Sandford intrigue me the most. In “Twilight” Rudy Salas, Sr. the Mexican sculptor and painter seem almost consumed with hatred towards white police officers. Because of his Mexican heredity he says he was called inferior in school by the “nice white teachers” (2). No wonder he called them “the enemy”. Even so he doesn’t exactly hate them. But rather he says he has “an insane hatred for white
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