Copwatch Essays

Police Brutality “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, we shouldn’t be silent about things that are really important or matter. Police brutality is real and we shouldn’t be quiet about it. Innocent lives are taken and people are injured. Police usually aren’t being convicted or punished for the action they took. Many people around the world deal with this not only the United States of America. This is a major conflict that

There are numerous issues that deal with the American criminal justice system, but the two I found most prominant that occur on a daily basis is the abuse from police officers and clear racism shown by the American criminal justice system. To begin, racism as we know is a prejudice directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. In the criminal justice system African Americans are directly targeted and punished in a higher more aggressive way, than

On April 12, 2015 a situation occurred on Presbury Street of the Sandtown neighborhood where civilian Kevin Moore decided to act as a street photographer by filming the situation on his phone. During that Sunday morning Moore woke up due to shouting which lead him to run outside his house in order to investigate the situation that was occurring by his home. Once Kevin was at the commotion site he discovered that a 25 year old man from his neighborhood, Freddie Gray, was being arrested for containing