Police Brutality: How Much Force is Too Much
Police officers are trusted with the task of protecting and serving the community, this is not an easy job and there are many concerns associated with it. Being a cop is one of the few jobs that you worry about whether or not you will return home each day, and because of that fear police are sometimes to forceful with criminals. Only the officer who is making the arrest and is actually there can really tell if the person they are arresting is resisting or not and only they can use that information to determine the right amount of force to use.
Often when a criminal is injured during an arrest they blame the officer for being too violent, but just because someone gets a broken arm or a bloody nose doesn't necessarily mean the officer used too much force. In some cases almost no force is needed to apprehend a suspect and they are cooperative, but in some cases suspects run and try to evade police. After someone runs when they are caught more force is used because the officers know if they don't keep the suspect there they'll run again. Anytime a suspect tries to injure an officer or if they do injure an officer the officers will use much more force because they must be cautious to keep themselves from being injured. It must be very stressful to have to be dealing with the worst people society has to offer every day and then have people tell you you're doing your job wrong.
There are of course some cases where it is obvious police used too much force, or were just trying to cause damage to the person they were arresting. It is because of these rare occurrences that police are so often accused of brutality and use of excessive force. There is no easy way to know what the correct amount of force is, and whether or not that is what the officer did. It can't be measured, and that is why there are so many reports of this. All that can be done is to try to spot when police are abusing there power and stop them, but mostly we just have to trust the police are doing there best to protect everyone and they are doing what they feel is best in the situations they are faced with.
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5 Comments
Post a CommentKilling a homeless man for taking aluminum cans out of the trash? Do 15 year old girls normally get arrested for breaking curfew? Is that an exucse to break her wrist while arresting her for resisting arrest? Sitting upon and choking a young teenager for the crime of skateboarding on a sidewalk? Arresting the young lady that was guilty of the same crime for "resisting arrest" warrents him grabbing her in a choke hold. For skateboarding?
Had I not noticed his patch, what would have been his story when he hauled me off to the police station in cuffs? I had to use force to arrest her because she assualted me. Kind of like what an officer did to Carolyn Fisher, whose crime was hanging a sign on a telephone pole. I admire police, because I could not do their job, but if they can not do it, they need to go into a different line of work.
Police, as you said, job is to "protect and serve", but many like to abuse their badge, by forcing behavior from people that will give them an excuse to arrest them. "Hey you, come here" is not the way to address a law-abiding citizen who's only crime is walking home from a store. If I had not seen his police patch, I would have assumed he was some jerk trying to pick me up and kept on walking. (unmarked police car). I can imagine that "flagrant" disregard of a police command would have lead to him jumping out of the vehicle, me unawares of why some strange man was grabbing me, fighting off the attacker and getting arrested for resisting arrest. That is what happens all too often.
An 18 year old girl is locked in a car with "a medical emergency". Just graduated High School and honor student. 4 police men felt the need to fire at her 27 times, killing her in the process. Sodomizing a man with a broom? Is that standard police protocol? How about the Security Guard in Palmdale High School that broke a students wrist, while arresting her for resisting arrest? Her crime? Not cleaning up cake crumbs on the floor to his satisfaction. Sitting on and punching the other student to take away his cellphone, because he was filming the girls arrest? Is that "all in the line of duty"?
A police man grabs someone by the arm and the man pulls free, so now the police has a reason to arrest the man for "resisting arrest" and breaks his arm in the process. The man's crime? He did not pick up a cigarette butt and put it in the trash. A young man gets shot in the back by a police man as he turns to do as the officer commanded "disperse" at a small peace protest. I counted about 65 riot geared officers called to handle a peaceful group of about 20 kids, singing songs, playing drums and guitars as they handed out literature.