Police brutality is a dicey topic that needs not to be ignored. ... Police brutality is an issue that is never acceptable because it is neither legal nor moral. In this instance of police brutality, two high-ranking officers were caught on camera assaulting a criminal unnecessarily brutally. ... Situations such as these are snowflakes that build the avalanche that is police brutality today. ... Police brutality is a huge issue in the United States. ...

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Police Accountability This paper will focus on the issues of police accountability in modern society, and in particular why their accountability is more important than other profession. ... Even more serious is police brutality and physical abuses of power, which in reality are more common than most believe. ... Nevertheless there are extensive methods in place for ensuring police accountability. ... External review can take the form of public inquiries by police boards, which examine police behavior, administration, resources and fiscal matters. ... Clearly the need...

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One problem in today's society that falls under the "disease" category is police brutality. ... Knowing this you start to realize that you can't even trust police officers these days. Police officers are supposed to be the ones people can rely on to be fair and just. In reality you should probably trust a police officer less than a convicted felon. ... In a report done by New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) for the first half of the year in 1997 it is seen that white America seems to rarely if ever be on the receiving end of police brutality. ...

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The next display of prejudice involves the police, specifically the Los Angeles Police Department, LAPD. ... The first example is the main police officer lives to take down drug dealers and criminals, while his own mother that does drugs and he does not do anything but help her. ... This actually can relate to the police killing innocent people in real life because lately, there has been a lot of mishaps involving police brutality, and it is a crazy thing because this movie is ten years old. In the movie, even the DA of the department lies to protect fellow officers, rather a certain police o...

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Police officers have not been exempt from stereotypes. ... The article shows that many teenagers and police officers have a hostile relationship with each other. Solomon best describes this when she writes "Teens associate the crisp, blue uniform of an officer with police brutality; police associate the baggy pants and black bandana of a teenager with the gang members who made it famous". ... These aren't my views of all police officers. ... Interactions with police and the youth have always been based loosely on stereotypes. ...

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According to history, police brutality as well as discrimination against minorities, has been an underlining reason for riots. ... The L.A. riots were a catastrophic event, the product of conflict between police enforcement; specifically white police enforcement and those of color over the corruption of the judicial system. ... During the time that the L.A. riots took place, Watts was a predominantly a low-income community with a large African-American population, many of whom felt that in addition to high unemployment, poverty and racial discrimination, its residents were regularly on the rec...

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But as claims of police brutality, discrimination against minorities, use of excessive force, and unmoral killings continues to escalate, citizens are now being comforted in the proposed solution of police officers being equipped with body cameras in an effort to improve transparency and accountability in their interactions with Officers. ... In 1992 riots broke out after a Los Angeles jury acquitted police in the beating of Rodney King despite a graphic home video shot by a bystander. Body Cameras cannot possibly stop a fatal bullet, nor can it bring back the lives that were in-discreation...

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Nelson as Jack Mannion, the Chief of Police in Washington D.C. It is based loosely on former deputy police commissioner of New York, Jack Maple, who was known for his oversized ego, and brilliant policing techniques (www.tvguide.com). ... Also there is some semblance of very early police programming where the police were very militaristic. ... In a few of the episodes, there were story lines that did not have to do with policing at all, but with relationships outside of the job. ... The show even tackles the issue of cops committing crimes against the people they are sworn to protect, such...

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