Police brutality is a topic that has been stirring up a lot of controversy and is a major issue. Almost every day on the news, we witness the death of an innocent human being killed by the police for no reason whatsoever. Others may think that police brutality isn’t a major issue. Some reasons may be police not being held accountable for their actions. This causes false beliefs by the public. Police brutality is a major issue in the United States and I am going to prove it.
First of all, according to vittana.org( https://vittana.org/42-shocking-police-brutality-statistics), police officers are only held accountable for less than 1% of all killings that they are involved in or are the cause of. On the other hand, citizens are held accountable for about 90% of killings that they are involved in. Also, according to the website above, only a “small fraction of police departments out of 17,000 law enforcement actually track police misconduct reports.” This means that police misconduct usually slips right through the department’s grip. That is also the cause of so much police brutality that we have today. These reasons cause multiple cases of police misconduct and violence.
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Out of that 80, only 35% were convicted. The rest of the remaining officers were either acquitted or their cases were pending. This evidence proves that police officers’ accountability rate for their crimes is rare and often very low. This also proves that police departments usually lack strict surveillance over their police officers’ behavior while on