Why Are Police Brutality Increasing

Why Police Brutality is increasing
Police brutality is a term that defines violence against humanity by law enforcement officers. The work of law enforcement officers is to enforce systematic power relations based on class and race. They perform their work through race-based policing, racial profiling, and targeting the low-income earners. Besides, they are tasked with the provision of police gender lines and enforcement of dominant racialized norms for people. In the same category, there are some aspects of gender that manifest law enforcement violence. These aspects are invisible in the advocacy of police brutality and violence based on gender. Sometimes, the police enforcement of the gender binary is obvious. For example, until recently,

However, the race is considered a salient predictors of the attitudes towards the police institutions. The blacks are likely to be affected than the whites because of race imbalance. Less is known about the views of other races though existing studies show that race is something that is significant in explaining police brutality. As a fact, racial differences is something that is common in the relations of the citizens with the police (Chaney and Robertson 110). In explaining the accounts for the racial differences, the paper will utilize the group-position model of race relations. The model is an element of conflict theory that views racial personality not just as a consequence of negative perception between different racial groups but as a reflection of the competition and conflict between the same groups over power and status. The model roots its argument in a collective group position with the group interest being the driving force that underlie the relation between the groups. Most of the group interest are attached to the beliefs of the members that they have claims to the scarce resources. The attitude of the dominant group towards other racial groups are positional: a term that defines the shape of the sense of the supremacy of the groups over other minority groups. On the other hand, the subordinate group is usually motivated by unfair treatment by the dominant group. The idea is to secure a great share of the benefits they will accrue. The attitudes that define racial differences does not only reflect on the prejudice to the level of an individual but also to a larger extent where the fear of the dominant in losing resources or privilege to the other racial groups. Sometimes, the fear could be on the beliefs of the minority members that the interest of the groups might be challenged by the existing race (Weitzer and Tuch