Police Brutality Issue

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The topic for this paper is“Is police brutality a major societal problem in the US, or just a series of isolated incidents?”. This topic is very controversial because even though there are a lot of police brutality incidents doesn’t mean that it is a problem. I believe that police brutality is just a series of isolated events.

Police brutality isn’t as big of an issue as most people would think. Put yourself in the mindset of a police officer at the point on conflict, take into account everything that is happening around them and if there is a potential threat. Police officers are not trained to kill, they are train to stop a threat by any means NECESSARY. Most of the time if there is a great threat coming at them, then they are allowed to fire their weapon. Aim to stop, not to kill. At
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(Article 1, Lines 65, 66, 67) “It found that in 2008, among people who had contact with police, “an estimated 1.4% had force used or threatened against them during their most recent contact, which was not statistically different from the percentages in 2002 (1.5%) and 2005 (1.6%).” ”

Some if not most have argued against the fact that police brutality isn’t a big world wide problem because of all the yellow journalism that happens on the news, social media, and communication. According to Bonnie Kristian who writes for “The American Resource” “police misconduct is a systemic problem, not “a few bad apples” ”
A direct quote from this article “Minorities are unfairly targeted.” Minorities are not being targeted over any other race. The only reason there are more cases involving a minority is because of the behavior of that specific ethnic group. Cases involving any type of criminal activity has had a minority as the suspect. (According to Article