Police brutality in America
Police Brutality in America I think we all can recognize that the police in cities all over have a difficult and often dangerous job, and most encounters between police officers and the public do not result in allegations and ill treatment. The police have a responsibility to ensure that excessive force and ill treatment will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Police brutality is divisive when it comes to violating human rights in the United States. This paper will focus on police brutality across the United States. Laws against police brutality vary between the different states. Police brutality is also linked to racism. ... A police officer acts with excessive force when he/she uses an amount of imputus in regards to a civilian that is more then necessary. Police officers are certainly permitted to use force and in some situations to use deadly power. ... Police brutality has become the focus of acute national attention during the past few years due to several high profile cases, including fatal shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant, Amadou Diallo, in New York City 1999. ... This shooting highlighted not only the tactics of the crimes quad (which had repeated complains against them) but also the racist targeting In California, August 1999, in an early morning narcotics raid, a swat team from El Montes police department burst into a home of a Mexican immigrant family and shot dead an unarmed elderly man, Mario Paz, in his bedroom.