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Slave Vs. Master On Police Brutality

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Slave vs. Master on Police Brutality and Victims
Some people consider police officers to be bad, but what really makes them bad? The fact that they have all these power? Police officers can be seen in two ways, either selfish or from the point of view of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality, slaves vs. master, which is this case they would be considered the masters. The master’s perspective got its name from the nobles, it was the nobles vs. the plebeians. The master’s perspective is that good is everything that is helpful and the bad everything that is harmful. The master is the strong and the master is the weak, and that is when the debate about police brutality and racial profiling comes into place. Even though they might be brutal, they are …show more content…

Such freedoms include the using deadly force, seizing personal property and high-speed driving. Meanwhile, such freedoms might be necessary; they can create an environment for wrongdoing, more especially when such habits are undetected as a result of inadequate supervision. The embarrassment created through the misconduct of law enforcement officers result in damaging the public trust, undermining the morale of law enforcement officers, as well as exposing the police department to unnecessary and costly litigations. Throughout the U.S police department history, law enforcement officers involved in police brutality have acted with the embedded approval of the legal system (Holmes and Brad 9-11). Police brutality has emerged as a considerable moral concern in the police department that needs to be addressed. The reasons brutal police officers are the masters and why the victims are the slaves will be analyzed in this …show more content…

Instead, they develop a moral code based on doing the opposite of what the masters do. They are the anti-masters. This tends to be paradoxical since the minorities are exercising their authority over the masters by their developed moral code meanwhile opposing the coercion and power, which the masters exercise over them. According to Friedrich Nietzsche, this is an inconsistency and hypocrisy because the minorities act upon their will to power like the masters although they hide it by the moral definitions (Cothran

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