Imagine all you want to do is go home, and the police stop you. Next thing you know, you’re the next victim of police brutality. Police brutality is a problem all over the world. Recently, a person with autism was a victim of police brutality that ended with death. Police brutality creates issues because it commonly leads to assault, battery, torture, and harassment. The Department of Justice needs to take action to ensure that police have better training and a changed mindset.
Police brutality has many significant impacts. It can lead to people being deprived of their lives and families deprived of loved ones. It decreases confidence in law enforcement. Police brutality makes it hard to cooperate if you don’t know what is about to happen to you. Finally, it is against the law and against the oaths that police make, such as a promise to keep the community and city safer.
According to the Police Brutality Center, “More than 600 people get killed yearly due to police brutality.” The article “Can We Train American Police to Turn Away From Violence?” states, “Law enforcement killed 1,123 people in 2022…[and] almost every year, Black people were almost three times more likely to be killed than white people.” This is a problem because people keep losing their lives to law enforcement, the people that they were supposed to trust.
A solution to reduce police brutality is to improve officer training so that the police can become people we can trust and keep the city safe. The Department of Justice can help with this, and police brutality can be solved by the right amount of people taking note of it and the resources available to help. According to the article in the Hechinger Report, “Police Training is Broken: Can It Be Fixed?” “Any effort to improve police education will have to contend with the reality that America’s system for training officers is a complex patchwork of hundreds of different programs that operate with virtually no standardization and little oversight.” This indicates that a lot of work with the police will need to be done so that people’s problems can be solved. If we could make this happen, many families would most likely be thankful that it happened.
If enough people take note of this, more people can help make families not have to go through mental issues or depression because of losing a loved one. All the police want to do is go home, which is the same thing you might want to do. But sometimes you can’t because maybe the police won’t believe you and think you’re lying about where you’re going, and then you might end up in a case with loved ones who miss you. All police aren’t bad, but the issue is systemic and still a severe problem. Let’s all try to make the police better so we won’t all be fighting and making it worse. Let’s work to make the police better in the world.
