Pros And Cons Of Police Brutality

Enhancement of our phone have become one of the most essential tool to spread awareness of anything that is going on in our society, by simply clicking a button to share anything on social media with large amount of people. Police brutality is one of the invisible violences that has been going on for years. Most of the time the Police targets civilians based on their skin color which eventually puts African Americans or Hispanics into disadvantage . The problem has been hidden away from the society as there were not enough evidence to support the brutalized victim until recently, where people can easily pull out their phone and record their sighting and share it instantly with other people on the internet. Many people believe that police brutality

For example, in the website “Mapping Police Violence” the source states that “Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week” This quote emphasizes the fact that nearly two people are killed by the police because of their poor judgement and lack of responsibility with the power they have. Another statistic have shown that “Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officers being charged with a crime and only 2 of those deaths resulted in conviction of officers involved. Only one of two officers convicted for their involvement in the killing and received jail time for 1 year” This data demonstrates the unfair treatment of people’s death that were caused by the police and how our judicial system is creating a system where the weight of killing a person is lifted by the title of being a “Police Officer”. One of many victims, Nathaniel Pickett was shot to death as none of the police officers were charged with murder, the police claimed that he was being uncooperative as they caught him jumping a fence and stopped him to ask questions, which clearly emphasizes the unreasonable harm that is being done based upon minimum evidence and prejudice consideration into

Structural violence is when group of people are put into disadvantage in basic human needs due to their racial status, economic status, and exploitative working relationships. People living under those conditions are usually in a powerless position where they cannot pull themselves out of the poor living condition that ultimately causes them psychological stress as well as the physical stress. Problems they cannot control leaves many of those people to have no choice but to participate in illegal activity, such as joining gangs, selling drugs, robbing houses, or to carry a weapon to protect themselves from those people. In the article “... And The Poor Get Prison” by Jeffrey Reiman, he demonstrates the struggles of everyday life for poor people and explains how population that lives under poor condition are more likely to be arrested and imprisoned when they are involved in criminal act. In middle of the article, Reiman explains “White-collar criminals are rarely arrested or charged: the system has developed kindlier ways of dealing with the more delicate sensibilities of its higher-class clientele” This statement connects to the fact that not only being an African American puts you into a degraded status, our judicial system treats differently among different races and allows white people with higher income to get away