Police Brutality is defined as being the abuse of power by the unwarrant finliction of excesscive usse of force, by an indivual that is involved in law enforcement, while in the emidst of performing their official duties. The term "excessive use of force" means a force that is well beyond what would be considered as being necessary in order to handle a situation.The term can also be abblied to abuses that havee been perpretrated by corrections professilas in state, federal, millitary and muncipal prisons. The word brutality has several different meanings. However, in the context of police brutality, it means savage or cruelty. While the term is typicall used to describe physical harm that, it can be applied to phssycholical harm such as the utilzaiton of intimidation tactics that go beyond the scope of official police proceedure. As far as physcological force goes, officers can utilzie, batons, pepper spray, guns and nerve gas to physicall traumatize or intentionally hurt vitivluans. …show more content…
Such is the case during the days of the Civil Rights Era, where evidence suggests that the police brutality rate was particulary high during this time period, simply due to the fact that their superiors gave them tacticapproval to perpretrate acts of police brutality.