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    Police brutality is a growing problem where police abuse their power to use excessive force against people. It most commonly stems from racial discrimination, classism, or if an officer feels threatened. This creates mistrust in law enforcement and makes communities less safe. It also directly causes injuries and death, with over 1,000 people shot by police each year in the US and 51,000 injured enough to require emergency care. Additionally, police brutality violates human rights by depriving individuals of their right to life, freedom from discrimination, security, and equal protection under the law as outlined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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    Police brutality is a growing problem where police abuse their power to use excessive force against people. It most commonly stems from racial discrimination, classism, or if an officer feels threatened. This creates mistrust in law enforcement and makes communities less safe. It also directly causes injuries and death, with over 1,000 people shot by police each year in the US and 51,000 injured enough to require emergency care. Additionally, police brutality violates human rights by depriving individuals of their right to life, freedom from discrimination, security, and equal protection under the law as outlined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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    Police brutality is a growing problem where police abuse their power to use excessive force against people. It most commonly stems from racial discrimination, classism, or if an officer feels threatened. This creates mistrust in law enforcement and makes communities less safe. It also directly causes injuries and death, with over 1,000 people shot by police each year in the US and 51,000 injured enough to require emergency care. Additionally, police brutality violates human rights by depriving individuals of their right to life, freedom from discrimination, security, and equal protection under the law as outlined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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    POLICE

    BRUTALITY
    Polina. S

    Police brutality in today's society is becoming a growing problem


    where the police abuse their power to use excessive force against
    people. Police brutality could involve Beatings, torture, illegal
    killings, racial abuse, and/or the indiscriminate use of riot control
    agents at protests. The most common causes of police brutality are
    racial discrimination, classism, or if a person of law enforcement felt
    threatened. This is a dilemma because it makes people feel unsafe,
    it is a direct cause of injury and death, and it is a violation of our civil
    rights.

    Firstly, because of police misconduct, police brutality generates


    mistrust and makes people feel unsafe. Law enforcement is there to
    maintain the law and protect individuals, and people will lose faith in
    the police force when they do the opposite. This is not good
    because “When people don't trust the police, they don't tell the
    police stuff about other crimes and safety threats that occur in the
    communities, crimes don’t get solved.” says Dr. Benjamin. Because
    of this, police brutality makes it more difficult for the police to work,
    and the communities they serve are not as safe.

    Furthermore, the cause of numerous casualties and injuries is


    because of police brutality and excessive violence used by them.
    Officers have shot people several times in many instances,
    demonstrating how the use of force was neither necessary nor
    appropriate. According to Statista, an average of 1000 people have
    been shot to death by police in the US in the past 4 years. Stats from
    JAMA found that an average of 51,000 people who were injured by
    the police visit the emergency room per year. It would be considered
    a public health threat if any other use of force or group of people killed
    1,000 people a year and sent over 50,000 more individuals to the ER.
    Additionally, police brutality is also a direct violation of our human
    rights. Superfluous and unlawful use of force may lead to individuals
    being deprived of their right to life, their right to freedom from
    discrimination, their right to freedom and security, and their right to
    equal protection under the law. Police abuse is prohibited by the
    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The
    ICCPR states that "Each State Party to the present Covenant
    undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its
    territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the
    present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race,
    colour, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion, national or
    social origin, property, birth or other status." It also says that "Every
    human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected
    by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life." As well as that
    it also states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
    inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment...." And finally it says
    "all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any
    discrimination to the equal protection of the law." This illustrates how
    police brutality is a violation of the ICCPR. Only lethal force/guns
    should ever be used by police officers as a final resort. Which means
    that they should be used only to protect themselves or others against
    the threat of death or serious injury, and only if there are insufficient
    alternatives.

    To summarize, police brutality is a horrible, unacceptable, and


    unreasonable part of society. It is appalling for the fact that it makes
    people feel unsafe, causes many injuries and deaths, and violates
    fundamental human rights. Nobody is above the law, including the
    people that enforce it.

    Peeples, Lynne. “What the Data Say about Police Brutality and Racial
    Bias - and Which Reforms Might Work.”
    Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 19 June 2020,
    www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z.
    Department, Published by Statista Research, and Nov 30. “People
    Shot to Death by U.S. Police, by Race 2020.”
    Statista, 30 Nov. 2020, www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-
    shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/.
    “What Is Police Brutality?” Police Violence | Amnesty International,
    www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/police-brutality/. Todd, Carolyn L.
    “Why Police Brutality Is a Public Health Issue.” SELF, 17 June 2020,
    www.self.com/story/police-brutality-public-health-issue.
    “International Human Rights Standards.” Shielded from Justice: 1990,
    www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/police/uspo38.htm.

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