Police Brutality :: Use of Excessive Force by Police

In recent years, police actions, oddly police ab wont, has come into view of a wide, public and critical eye. part citizens worry about entertaining themselves from criminals, it has now been shown that they must also progress a watchful eye on those who are supposed to protect and serve. This paper testament discuss the types of police ab exercise prevalent today, including the use of firearms and receipt of private education. I will also discuss what and how citizens rights are taken advantage of by police. For these problems, solutions will be discussed, focusing on political reform, education, and citizen review boards. These measures are necessary to protect ourselves from police pickings advantage of their positions as law enforcement officers with greater permissive rights than private citizens. Because of this important differential, all citizens must take affirmative action from corporeal brutality, rights violations, and information abuse. Problems arise, however, when one side is told what to do by an separate, as t here is point of accumulation to be conflicting viewpoints. In regard to police abuse, there will be many officers who feel that their job of adjureing escalating street crime, gangs, narcotics violations, and other violent crimes is difficult already, and that worrying about excessive policy for opprobrious behavior will only further decrease their ability to fight crime effectively, efficiently, and safely. Citizens, however, have been caught up in this gung-ho attitude, and police are much and more often crossing the line of investigation and interrogation with opprobrious behavior. This abuse must be monitored so that police do non forget who they are serving--not themselves, but the public. This means that even the criminals, who are a part of the public, have certain rights, particularly, civil rights. All citizens must be aware of these rights to protect themselves against over-aggressive officers who take advantage of their position as badge and gun holders to intimidate and abuse civilians for personal or departmental goals. much(prenominal) conflicts have significant implications on departmental and administrative policy procedures. wizard of the main police abuse problems is physical brutality. The main goal here should be to get the police departments to adopt and enforce a indite policy governing the use of physical force. The policy should restrict physical force to the narrowest possible range of specific situations. For example, their should be limitations on the use of hand-to-hand combat, batons, mace, stun guns, and firearms. However, limiting polices actions will bring much debate, especially from police officers and administrators themselves.