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    Police brutality, especially against African Americans, has been increasing in recent years according to several high-profile cases of killings by police. Statistics also show racial disparities in arrests and the use of force by police. While police often claim suspects were resisting arrest to justify their actions, evidence suggests these charges are often used to cover up excessive use of force. As a future criminal justice lawyer, the author has become more aware of these issues through their studies and realizes the system is more focused on protecting police than serving citizens equally.

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    Police brutality, especially against African Americans, has been increasing in recent years according to several high-profile cases of killings by police. Statistics also show racial disparities in arrests and the use of force by police. While police often claim suspects were resisting arrest to justify their actions, evidence suggests these charges are often used to cover up excessive use of force. As a future criminal justice lawyer, the author has become more aware of these issues through their studies and realizes the system is more focused on protecting police than serving citizens equally.

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    Police brutality, especially against African Americans, has been increasing in recent years according to several high-profile cases of killings by police. Statistics also show racial disparities in arrests and the use of force by police. While police often claim suspects were resisting arrest to justify their actions, evidence suggests these charges are often used to cover up excessive use of force. As a future criminal justice lawyer, the author has become more aware of these issues through their studies and realizes the system is more focused on protecting police than serving citizens equally.

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    Kala Burwick

    Professor Sipin
    English Comp: 211C
    March 17, 2015

    It Only Gets Worse


    The topic of police brutality can be a very touchy, emotional topic for some people, but it
    still has to be discussed because it is only getting worse. In the past 3 years, there has been many
    killing as a result of police brutality. Most are not known, but the one that are were committed
    against African Americans. The first was 17 year old Trayvon Martin, who was killed on
    February 26, 2012. The second most know is the killing of 43 year old, Eric Garner. The third is
    the killing of 18 year old Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. These are the most talked about not
    only because they are recent, but also African Americans were the ones that died. The criminal
    justice system does not seem to be helping or at least trying to help. In a way, police brutality is
    connected to anti-black racism because it is only happening to black people. Not only is this
    wrong, but it is getting out of control.
    Seeing that I am a criminal justice major and will one day in the future be working as a
    lawyer, I have to think rationally. In Eric Graners case they said that he was resisting arrest.
    You cannot resist arrest, that's a crime." But it's not a crime that most police officers often file
    reports about (Lind). Out of all known police brutality cases, this one has a very high emotional
    appeal. This man has 6 young kids that he left behind. Also, the way that he died was not

    pleasant. Not saying that all deaths are pleasant but most people do not die begging for air. Sam
    walker explains, "There's a widespread pattern in American policing where resisting arrest
    charges are used to sort of cover - and that phrase is used - the officer's use of force (Lind).
    Most resisting arrest charges are cover ups. Most of the time you would not hear of someone
    resisting arrest.
    Can the cops be controlled? Its never been easy: according to one old sociological
    chestnut, the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence is what defines modern government,
    and this monopoly is jealously protected against the second-guessing of puny civilians
    (Madar). The FBI has about 470 justified homicides. Knowing that cops cannot be controlled
    is bad. Modern law enforcement is more about protecting the police than the citizens. Citizens
    are more afraid of the police than the people doing the crimes.
    Statistics show that 18 percent of African American suspects were killed by police, while
    8.7 percent were white (McKay). In Ferguson, 67 percent of African Americans in Ferguson
    account for 93 percent of arrests made from 2012-2014 (Berman and Lowery). Knowing things
    like this is something that would make me not want to trust the police. When you are young,
    youre taught that cops are the good guys and they help. Today, as we grow the cops are look
    more like bad guys. The process of writing this paper and being a criminal justice major only
    open my eyes up to most things people do not see.

    Works Cited
    Berman, Mark and Wesley Lowery. The 12 key highlights from the DOJs scathing
    Ferguson report. n.d. March 2015.
    Lind, Dara. 5% of New York cops turn in 40% of "resisting arrest" cases. 6 December
    2014. March 2015.
    Madar, Chase. Why Its Impossible to Indict a Cop. 24 November 2014. March 2015.
    McKay, Tom. One Troubling Statistic Shows Just How Racist America's Police
    Brutality Problem Is. 18 August 2014. March 2015.

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