Police Brutality

br Americans typically experience excessive force during arrest as a standard policing procedure (b ) physical forces applied by the arresting officers are neither lawfully constituted nor unintentional and (c ) the most common forms of police misconduct among minorities are in the verbal assaults and physical abuse (p .162 . These assertions are being supported by different studies made from the past up to present In one study of Sigelman , Welch and Bledsoe et al (1997 , both national and local opinion surveys show results implicating African Americans disappointments on American urban policing , especially in

Los Angeles where police brutality cases have always been rampant

Based from the human rights and United States constitution , citizens have the right to be secure from unreasonable search , seizures or harm within the consorts of their community (Feagin , 2000

.148 . However these rights are most of the time being violated by the policing department , especially when one seems suspicious enough to be interrogated and search . Unfortunately , race orientations of a person are sometimes the reference of the police suspicion ' justifying their actions of violence . For example in Oklahoma , there have been many cases d wherein many law enforcement agencies screen and halt motorists based on their racial characteristics , which they colloquially call - Driving While Black (DWB ) violation (Feagin , 2000

.148

Meanwhile , according to Harriott (2000 , police violence - an authority-seeking behavior ' - is another form of society dominance implemented by these officers to increase public respect over their position however , contrary to their expectations , police brutality only becomes a channel for public fear , deviance and distrust on policing campaigns (p .50 . In a Detroit survey conducted by Rinella , Jr (1968 56 of black residents perceived the police treated some people better than others ' while 61 of whites interviewed perceived policemen treated all people the same . The study...