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Running Head: POLICE BRUTALITY

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Police Brutality: A Review of Literature
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Police Brutality: A review of the literature
Introduction
Police Brutality against the African Americans has been a topic of heated discussion in
the recent years with the police being blamed of taking the law into their hands through frisking
and harassment of innocent citizens simply because of their color. Due to police brutality on
African Americans, demos and agitation for justice for the blacks have been witnessed. The
behavior of the police shooting innocent young men of the black race is no justified act but
exploitation and harassment of a race that has been looked upon since the times of slavery. In a
journal written by Tomaskovic-Devey et al. titled Self-reports of Police Speeding Stops by Race:
Results from the North Carolina Reverse Record Check Survey demonstrated how officers on
duty greatly harassed people of color unlike their white counterparts (Tomaskovic-Devey et al.
2006). The police stops and driving behavior provider an important methodology for examining
the police attitude towards both the white and black drivers. Racial disparity was noticed in the
police stop reports with more than 80% stops in a single month being blacks (Tomaskovic-Devey
et al. 2006). On the list of all black reports conducted the police executed random searches and
seizure prompting the notion that most African Americans were suspects of either drugs or
possession of weapons. The searches and frisks were unnecessary since the reasons of stops were
speeding for both Whites and blacks yet it is only the whites who were mostly subjected to such
brutal harassment.
Chaney and Robertson in their Journal Racism and Police Brutality in America argue that
being a black male in America may be a nightmare since one is viewed as a “prototypical
criminal” a notion which has been promoted by the media, public and criminal justice system in

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recent times (Chaney & Robertson, 2013). The journal notes that due to the history associated
with the black race, the African Americans are viewed as outlaws, a reference used by the police
to counter these individuals. Police, however, give a conflicting opinion on the matter saying that
such steps are taken to protect their safety...


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