Posted on Apr 10, 2015
Police brutality: justified or unjustified?
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Police brutality is all over the news these days. It seems that police dont know when it is weapons free and when it is not. Is it the lack of training they have? Or is it that they are too trigger happy? Should federal officers prob police departments to see if they are training the police correctly?
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Brutality is never justified. Police use of force is often justified. Brutality is the equivalent of excessive force and cannot be justified. Deadly force is the ultimate level of force. It is rarely used given the number of citizen contacts that officers have over time. Deadly force is not necessarily excessive but is based on the totality of circumstances in an individual situation.
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What The News Calls "Police Brutality" and what is really "Police Brutality" are 2 very different things.....It is easy for non police persons and news personalities (They are not reporters) See the article I posted in RP
https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/understanding-police-use-of-force-right-vs-reasonable?urlhash=2217404
https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/understanding-police-use-of-force-right-vs-reasonable?urlhash=2217404
Understanding police use of force: Right vs. reasonable | RallyPoint
Interesting article especially for non LEOs
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I'm glad that the introduction of cellphone cameras are bringing these crimes out into the public.
I'm not anti-police, far from it. I think those who feel they are above the law should be punished, and that local police agencies should be fixing this issue thru training and a zero tolerance policy. Too many of these may have been shoved under the rug and now it's an epidemic and the public is beginning to feel it's endemic of law enforcement as a whole, which is far from the truth, but news media has put it out there on a 24 hour spin.
They need to do some serious PR and some serious house cleaning. It's their job to protect and serve their communities and hopefully, they'll weed out the bad apples and restore their image.
Do not forget that the uniformed service had issues in the 70's and we came through it with a better military.
I'm not anti-police, far from it. I think those who feel they are above the law should be punished, and that local police agencies should be fixing this issue thru training and a zero tolerance policy. Too many of these may have been shoved under the rug and now it's an epidemic and the public is beginning to feel it's endemic of law enforcement as a whole, which is far from the truth, but news media has put it out there on a 24 hour spin.
They need to do some serious PR and some serious house cleaning. It's their job to protect and serve their communities and hopefully, they'll weed out the bad apples and restore their image.
Do not forget that the uniformed service had issues in the 70's and we came through it with a better military.
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SSG Jeremy Sharp
I don't think it is anywhere close to epidemic proportions. When you consider the number of law enforcement officers working everyday and the number of public contacts that each officer has on a daily basis, then factor in that we hear of only a couple incidents a month that are truly cases of brutality or excessive force the percentage of those situations are minuscule, far less than one percent. While I am appalled by true incidents of police misconduct and feel that violators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, I realize that media sensationalism leads to the characterization of any use of force by police as brutality or excessive when the truth of the matter is that full context of the encounter is rarely given until we find out months later that video footage actually supports the actions of the officer but that is rarely reported with the same fervor that the original was. News agencies adhere to the mentality "if it bleeds, it leads" and rarely care that the slant that they portray is completely contrary to the actual events the video shows.
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