Today, police brutality is propagated at individual levels where a police officer or a group of them assaults a civilian. ... Police Brutality: Causes, Impacts and Solutions Police brutality is a complex term that refers to all the actions and practices that police officers apply in the process of carrying out their duties but end up violating the rights of civilians. ... Police officers have been associated with brutality in almost all countries. ... They fail to fully and objectively investigate all cases of force and brutality and this perpetuates the culture of police brutality in this for...

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Ethics in Policing The original conception of the police forces' role in society emphasizes the need for police to obtain community support in order to perform policing duties. There are three issues that have shaped the role of ethics in policing: styles of policing, the police as an institution, and police culture. ... Policing, or police culture, fringes on the mutual respect and cooperation of the public in which the police are sworn to protect (Banks, 2009). ... Violations of the rule-of-law include acts such as police brutality, planting false evidence, and lying in court (Finckenau...

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Certain police are taking advantage of their position of authority. ... Other than police misconduct, racial inequities have also poisoned the criminal justice system. ... Our current state of affairs should focus on police brutality and to what extent their power should give them. ... Eliminating police brutality against people of color should become a national priority. Many people should become aware of how serious of a threat racial profiling and police brutalities are. ...

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Police studies have shown that civil disorder is more common on weekends and after sunset. ... If a member of the public is arrested by police, there is a great chance that crowds may form or there will be an increase in police brutality. ... Police are expected to be subjected to verbal abuse and physical abuse. The crowd can distribute pamphlets mocking the police or encouraging police brutality which is very effective to their cause. ... As well as psychological abuse, police will receive a large amount of physical abuse from a mob. ...

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Historically, there has never been any public outcry against the brutality of battered women. ... Some of them served as a protection against embarrassment, while others were created to protect rescuers from their own discouragement when they were unsuccessful in stopping the brutality. ... Studies of women have shown that most believe that the police would not be of any help. In fact, only about 10% of women in these situations have called the police. ... The police are usually ...

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Despite jeopardized jobs, intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, police harassment, and bombings, the success of the boycott was apparent when King and several others boarded a public bus in front of King's home on December 21, 1956. ... He avoided jail time; however, as the police commissioner paid the fine to avoid the publicity King would have garnered. After this police incident, while at a book signing, King was critically stabbed by a deranged black woman. ... Birmingham police seemed to go about this in matters of brutality. ... From all of the brutality this brought upon, the tide ...

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Persecution of gays and lesbians was widespread into the early and mid-part of the century, typically in the form of police entrapment and brutality. ... Police raided a bar frequented by gays, lesbians, and transgendered people called The Stonewall Inn. ... Rather than accept the police harassment and brutality, patrons and employees stood up against the police. Terrified of the ensuing riots, the police barricaded themselves inside the building. ... In this case, Ward accused the Boston Public Library, as well as the police department, with civil rights violations. ...

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The issue of the corrupted police and the corruption in the interior ministry and its brutality against the civilians in the past three decades (starting from 1981 until 2011) is considered by The World Post, as one important factor for these events to erupt.11 With the emergency law in effect, Mubarak and his government were vulnerable. ... Indisputably Khaled Saieed the 28-year-old young man, who was murdered and beaten till death in front of his house by the police in Alexandria in June 2010, has become a symbol of Mubarak regime's brutality. ... At the end of the day the police was ov...

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Although a number of studies document police officers' and community members' concern that women are not strong enough or aggressive enough for police work, physical strength has not been shown to predict general police effectiveness or ability to handle dangerous situations successfully. ... In 2000 and 2001, the number of women employed by large police agencies actually dropped the previous year-from 14.3% in 1999 and 13.0% in 2000, to 12.7% in 2001 (National Center for Women and Policing, 2001). ... Police brutality and corruption lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollar...

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" These riots were largely due to police brutality. "If blacks conduct themselves in an orderly way, they will not have to worry about police brutality," argued West Virginia senator Robert Byrd. ...

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It continues its commitment to nonviolent action to achieve social, economic, and political justice and is currently focused on issues such as racial profiling, police brutality, hate crimes, and discrimination. ... The scale of protest and police brutality of the Birmingham Campaign created a new level of visibility for the civil rights movement and contributed to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ... Their demonstrations were met with arrests, assault by fire hoses and police dogs, and imprisonment. ...

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Police brutality particularly among the former UVF 'B' Specials was commonplace and it finally found international awareness when RTE cameras caught hundreds of feet of film showing two platoons of the RUC surrounding and trapping a peaceful NICRA march on 5th October 1969. ... These atrocities by the Police in Northern Ireland were commonplace. ... They wanted to show up the Police in Northern Ireland to the rest of the world. ... We indeed set out to make the police overreact. But, we hadn't expected the animal brutality of the R.U.C....

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The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. The 60's were very volatile and unstable. I'm sure living in the 60's was exciting in way, but it also must have been depres...

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The need for the stop of Black on Black crime, police brutality and human unity are addressed in this song that reached the number one slot on the billboard top 100. ... Changes tells us a story of living in the "hood" and dealing with issues such as police brutality, poverty and racism. ...

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Among these are that capital punishment is "cruel and usual", "epitomizes the tragic inefficacy and brutality of violence", "denies due process of law", "violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection", "is not a viable form of crime control", "wastes resources" and "is a violent spectacle of official homicide" (Bedau). ... In fact, leftists argue that it embodies the appalling inefficiency and brutality of violence rather than a civilized solution to difficult social problems. ... A system in which journalism students are able to prove that the police prosecutors, defense lawye...

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"Brutality impresses" were two of Hitler's convictions nevertheless. ... Hitler's use of the masterly notion of "Brutality impresses" was depicted in the "Night of the Long Knives" on 30 June 1934, where the murders of people who posed a challenge to Hitler's position (in particular, Ernst Rohm and General von Schleicher) and the annihilation of the SA took place. ... Nazi Germany was a police state. In order to implement complete rule, control and power over the German population, the Nazis established both a Ministry of Propaganda to monitor and restrain information, and part...

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"The police station is on our way home."" ... The police station was not far off. ... The police station was to their right; Robert's home was to their left. But the boys decided to go back to the railway, avoiding the police station. ... But after he thought about the missing child, he called the police that evening. ...

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Many media outlets depict drug users and dealers as burden on the community; so much of police attention is fixated on those deviant members of society. ... This idea not only is integrated in the mind of the overall community, but also the police forces that "serve and protect" them. When the police also have a predetermined idea of "criminal" those individuals who fall into that category can be systematically watched, and accosted in attempts to keep the community safe. ...

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The United States in the 1960s was a time of cultural change and social movements throughout the country. The youth movement was characterized by young college students that had become political activists and were against political suppression by the government. They were also were majorly involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. Others that were apart of the youth movement simply separated themselves from the mainstream ideals of the society. The social, cultural, and political impacts of the counterculture that took place in the 60s had a very large impact on United States history...

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When being questioned by the police as to why the boys poured salt in the dying mans wounds, one of the boys responded, "Oh I don't know. ... In real life, when a person is found guilty of committing a violent act they are punished by some authority figure whether it is their parents or the police. ... Due to the fact that television glamorizes violence, viewers get an unrealistic look at the negative effects of this brutality. ...

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Even when the system tries to be impartially and with the highest regard of justice, critics suggest that the system is deteriorating at all levels, saying that regularly poor and minority Americans has become victims of not only harsher sentencing with extensive incarceration, but from the very first step of police profiling and inadequate legal defense. ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...

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After further protest of the ridiculous law, the bus driver called the police and Rosa was taken away in hand cuffs. ... The violence and brutality that had been started by mayor Bull Connor's police also helped their effort. ...

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In such a state common good is placed over individual good, opponents are ruthlessly prosecuted and the armies as well as the police forces serve as political weapons. The Nazi regime in Germany was a totalitarian one, because its government leaders showed no mercy toward potential opponents as this speech from Herman Goring displays: " Police officers who use weapons in carrying out their duties will be covered by me. ... Every bullet, which leaves the barrel of a police pistol, now is my bullet. ... I Knew Hitler) After gaining power on 30th January 1933, the Nazi regime set up an au...

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New York City police detective Bernard Porter Jr. says, "Two assailants were buzzed in to the building, located at 90-10 Merrick Blvd. in Jay's hometown of Queens. But police don't know if the perpetrators were allowed in from the studio or from one of two other businesses that share space in the building" (Reid, MTV 2). ... Black Entertainment Television reports that [The New York Post] speculates "Jam Master Jay may have been killed for a dispute over money, and fingered an individual named Curtis Scoon as the prime suspect in the investigation, and the man wanted by police for que...

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