Police brutality affects the minds of people who have experienced this tragic event firsthand and secondhand. A study has found significant associations between police interactions and mental health. PTSD, anxiety, depression, psychotic experiences, and psychological distress are some of the few mental health factors victims of police brutality can have. In the novel “THUG” by Angie Thomas, the main character Starr goes through police brutality, and the choices she makes after it proves that police brutality does affect the mind. Police officers use the id, which is the primitive and instinctive component of personality and psychology, id is a part of the unconscious mind that contains all the urges and impulses. Police brutality has significant …show more content…
Thus, over-policing can manifest in community members experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) because they are constantly reminded of the consequences of non-compliance.” American police are known to carry firearms while on duty, they also have broad liberty to determine where and when to use force that could be deadly. Because of this threat that means this threat of over-policing and police brutality can bring additional challenges to mental health, 55 million people have taken mental health days off because of police brutality and how it's affected them in …show more content…
id is a primitive and instinctual part of the mind that drives aggressive drives, id acts according to the pleasure principle or the tendency to seek immediate gratification. This is why police brutality happens, some police officers act on those urges which leads to police brutality. An article quotes “In his 1933 book New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Freud described the id as the "dark, inaccessible part of our personality." The only real way to observe the id, he suggested, was to study the content of dreams and neurotic behavioral clues.” A police officer could pull someone over because they have the urge or thought to pull an act of brutality, it could change a life forever. Most police brutality happens to African Americans from a white cop, this is because the officer's racism makes the id have the urge to do something unforgivable. “Witnessing or experiencing harassment, routine unwarranted searches, and deaths that go unpunished send a message to Black communities that their bodies are police property, disposable, and undeserving of dignity and justice” claims the National Library of Medicine, the racism comes from the cops while the action comes from the id part of the personality. Racism happens the majority of the time because we’re so quick to judge or stereotype, we blame others for our problems, we want to hang out with people