One example of this is the topic of police brutality. All police officers have the goal or purpose to protect citizens and to get the bad guys off of the streets. ... A recent case of police brutality involves a police officer that shot and killed a mentally ill who suffered man in the city of Milwaukee. ... In order to discuss this question, it is important to first understand what polices during this era were enacted. ... Another policy that affected the courts was the utilization of 'Zero Tolerance' policing. ...

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Slavery was inherently a system of brutality and coercion in which beating and the breakup of families through the sale of individuals were commonplace. ... Today there is still racial profiling, police brutality and other forms of segregation, but it's less noticeable due to corrective implementation to laws that are still being reviewed. ...

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Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are also portrayed as piously religious people who profess themselves to be believers in the word of God, yet they see nothing wrong with keeping slaves and the brutality of disconnecting Jim from his family. ...

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In America, the Court ruled that, "segregation laws have been generally, if not universally recognized as within the competency of state legislatures in the exercise of their police power" (853). ... Wells, who wrote The "Anti-Lynching Campaign", had much to say about the brutality being placed among the black race. ...

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