Jocelyn Pacheco
Mrs. Smith
English 10P
6 February 2023
Police brutality should be stopped
Police Brutality should not be an issue that we face in this world. Many people are killed or beaten because of their racial profile. Their families are also harmed because someone in their family is being taken away. People are falsely accused which most of the time turns out to be a very dangerous scenario. Police brutality shouldn't be a thing but ways that can help reduce it are to increase accountability for police violence through financial strategies, removal of military force, and more restrictive laws governing use of force.
Police departments should pay any lawsuits with their own budget. According to Kline, “suspend the use of paid leave when
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Furthermore a 2017 study confirmed that “receiving more military equipment makes police departments more likely to use it”(Mark and Guenot par28). Confirming the statement is true, it can be a solution to reducing police brutality by taking away such equipment and only using it for extreme measures. These provides and supports giving dangerous equipment can cause more police brutality. Which is why they should only use it for extreme measures to insure if they did they wouldn’t have an excuse for they did not use it for extreme measures but for a quick …show more content…
According to the University of Texas, “most Texas voters have a favorable opinion of police, feel safe where they live and don’t think police budgets should be cut”(Ramsey par1). If the police budgets don't get cut by their wrong doing then they will just continue doing it since they aren't losing anything. They don’t think it's a problem because it’s not happening to them, they don’t experience the hurt and pain people go through because of police brutality. Also, people don’t think it’s a problem because they refuse to acknowledge it.
In conclusion, removing military equipment, more restrictive laws and finally holding accountability through financial strategies can be some ways to reduce police brutality. These are ideas to help people know what to do. Here are some other ideas to the solution. Some other ways can be the use of more non-police organizations to respond to emergency calls, and reduce the power of police unions. With this people will have some ideas on how to reduce the