Understanding Police Brutality Sociological Perspe

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Police Brutality and Its Three Sociological PerspectivesStructural Functionalism ApplicationVarious police human rights violations have been referred to as "police brutality1attimes. This could involve unjustified executions, torture, or the indiscriminate deployment of riotcontrol measures during protests. The worst-case scenario is the denial of a person's right to lifedue to the improper use of force by law enforcement. It may also be deemed torture or anothertype of abuse if the police are using excessive or unwanted force The use of unlawful force bylaw enforcement can affect the rights to liberty, security, and equal protection under the law. It isthe police's responsibility to support peaceful protests, and not the other way around, in terms oftheir overall objective, which is to serve, calm, and protect society. They are accountable forpreserving stability and order. We can guarantee long-term peace and development bypreventing, detecting, and investigating crime, protecting persons and property, and maintainingpublic order and safety.I'll use instances from Missouri, our state, to illustrate how certain organizations combatpolice brutality nationwide. An extension of Hands Up United, The Books & Breakfast strives toprovide a venue that encourages conversation about social justice and the improvement ofeducation in African-American communities. Dedicated to reducing injustice, Hands Up Unitedpromotes more political and economic education for people of color. Local NAACP Chapters area wonderful source for staying up to date on current affairs and learning how to continue takingpart in the fight to eradicate the scourge of police brutality that terrorizes the Black community,to provide one national example. Another national example is Black Youth Project 100, whoseprimary objectives are to improve leadership development, direct action organizing andeducation in order to secure justice and freedom for all Black people, ’You've been outraged.You've been saddened. You've been frustrated. Now get involved" (Davis, 2020)

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Police violence causes emotional trauma unlike that brought on by other sorts ofviolence, which has disastrous results for the populations most affected. According to thesurvey, Black, Latino, Indigenous, and sexual minority communities are more likely to havespecific mental health conditions and are also at a higher risk of dying at the hands of police.What distinguishes police brutality in America from most other forms of violence is the history ofstate-enforced practices that permitted cruel, unusual, and inhumane punishment of thosethought to be from so-called "dangerous classes," particularly Blacks. The use of excessive andfatal force against members of these communities was previously permitted under laws thatdiscriminated against people of color and LGBT people, such as sodomy and Jim Crow laws.Conflict Theory ApplicationConflict theorists think that use of force or the prospect of use of force is the primaryforce holding unequal society together. The gap between social classes and the volume ofviolent crime in a quickly developing area are two elements linked to police brutality. (D. Jacobsand D. Britt). The killing of George Floyd is a part of a pattern of brutality and misbehavior onthe part of the police that all too frequently results in homicide.Sociologists look into the relationships between inequality, class, race, and the issue ofpolice brutality. Numerous investigations on police interactions with residents have shown thatthere are regional tendencies in how police behave. Poorer communities are more likely than■wealthier ones to deploy punitive policing. "Michael Brown's death, along with the social unrestfollowing the recent killings of Blacks at the hands of the police, have driven issues of race,justice, and policing to the forefront of the American conscience." (Gabbing et al, 2019).Even though academics have explored a range of ideas to account for Blacks'perceptions of and interactions with the police, there are still substantial gaps in ourunderstanding of race, gender, and policing. First, there has been a greater focus on how race,class gender, and criminality intersect. Numerous studies on the plight of Black men and how

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the police treat them have demonstrated that minority children who reside in underservedmetropolitan areas are vulnerable to aggressive policing techniques. Although Black men reportmore dissatisfaction with the discriminatory treatment by police than Whites and minorityfemales, it is assumed that young Black men are the main targets of unfavorable policecontacts. Black women also have negative experiences with the police and are not immunefrom harmful police encounters. Black women's experiences may negatively affect how theyrespond to unjustified police stops. Despite the fact that research indicates that impoverishedcommunities of color are disproportionately subject to stops and searches, disrespectful acts,and the use of excessive force, less is known about how gender affects reactions to contacts■with the police that are unwelcome. Police contacts with the public are ecologically structured,according to study, because they vary between middle-class and affluent neighborhoods andpoor regions, aggressive enforcement methods are disproportionately used againstimpoverished Black people in poor neighborhoods. (Cobbinaetal., 2019)Influences on the public's perception of African Americans and the police includevictimization incidents. According to research (Hanson et al., 2010), victims of crime and victimsof citizens being systematically used as tools of repression, abuse, and/or harassment. Stillconsidering the pcrwer relations that lead to police brutality. All the stories I've read have onething in common: one group always exerts pressure on the other (either physically orpsychologically, using techniques like inverted psychology). In this particular instance, the policefrequently have an impact on people of various racial, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds.A power dynamic need not always be bad or unfavorable. Hoover, it can be used todemonstrate the superiority of some groups over others, and the weaker ones are powerless toovercome the stronger ones. This indicates that there is an imbalance of power, demonstratingthat the police have power over the general public.People who have had a negative experience with the police may become less trusting ofother institutions. This decreased willingness to seek out mental health services and other types

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