Police Brutality

                                                           

Art 3170 Civic Engagement: Social Issues "Action" Project

Welcome to the ART 1370 blog created as part of the civic engagement requirement of this course. In this blog, students will identify a social major social issue that affects their communities. After conducting brief research on this issue and sharing their personal feelings, students will locate members of their communities who are also affected by the same social issue.

   Police Brutality by Oscar Rodriguez 

Police brutality can be a dangerous position to be in because you never know what the police might do to you when you get stopped by a cop. In order for you to not get brutalized by the police you just have to listen to the cops and not get in trouble by the police.

The Definition of Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement is when people come together with somebody else's idea that want to help find a solution to try to end a problem that is happening.

Definition of Police Brutality

Police Brutality is the excessive and warranted use of force by law enforcement. Police brutality can also be the cops forcing somebody to do something that they don't want to do. For example, on the website amnesty.org they state that "police brutality is unlawful use of force by police which can end in death,injury,and devastation."  This can be emotional for people to see because cops can be racist for targeting people with a light or dark skin color. 

                                                        Ways to end Police Brutality

Some ways to end police brutality are by speaking/defending others, making a change in the world, and creating celebrity platforms/regular individuals.

There were a lot of people with different that were killed because of police brutality some of the race that were killed due to police brutality were White, Black, Hispanic, other, and unknown.

What people in Los Angeles Think about Police Brutality

Maggie Navarro: "I think that police brutality is violent and should be ended because they are putting people's lives in danger when they get stopped by a cop."

Andrew Gonzalez: "it's wrong, it should be ended by congress and that it needs to stop already before more people get killed by the cops."

References

Schwandt F., Kroger T., Protzmann M., Lowe T., and Jakob H. (2007). People shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2021.  Published on March 1st 2021 . The people that created that talked about this topic  experts because they did their research based on this. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Kall, R (2003). Police Brutality in the United States of America. Article: Police Brutality in the United States of America | OpEdNews

Greenwald,D (2006). City of San Jose Sued for Police Brutality during 2020 Police Brutality Protests. City of San Jose Sued for Police Brutality during 2020 Police Brutality Protests | Davis Vanguard