Police Brutality

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The paper discusses how police brutality is an issue that negatively affects the social and legal foundations of society. The paper relates that police brutality and racial profiling make up the core of today's policing. The paper explains that when police brutality happens, civil society ceases to trust the police and laws that the police are supposed to enforce are no longer followed and respected. The paper contends that law enforcement agencies should be given limited power and right to enforce the rule of law, especially under circumstances wherein judgment of one's misconduct or offense is based on the officer's/enforcer's subjective judgment alone, without sufficient empirical evidence and objective analysis.

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"Operationalizing the concept of police brutality, it is legally defined as the usage of deadly force in enforcing rules and laws upon the civil society. The key term being "deadly force," police brutality is often an issue relevant and significant mostly among members of minority groups. This is because historically and up until now, police brutality has always been considered a social problem commonly occurring among non-white American members of the society."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Da Silva, D. (2001). "Towards a critique of the socio-logos of justice: the analytics of raciality and the production of universality." Social Identities, Vol. 7, Issue 3.
• Maddox, A. (2004). "Police brutality: the blind leading the blind." New York Amsterdam News, Vol. 95, Issue 5.
• Roane, K. (2001). "Policing the police is a dicey business." U. S. News & World Report, Vol. 130, Issue 17.
• Weill-Greenberg, E. (2005). "NAACP tackles police brutality in Florida after death of two men." New York Amsterdam News, Vol. 96, Issue 2.

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