Police Brutality

Ryan Liddell Com101-03 Professor Reagan 2 August 2000 “Police Brutality is a fact of American life. In Major cities across the country, officers are abusing their authority in the most flagrant ways”(“Must End”). Law enforcement officers carry guns, are given special privileges and great responsibility. Public safety officers are trusted and expected to respect society as a whole. Taking all of this into consideration, do cops actually break the law? Yes, they do. They do …showed first 75 words of 1301 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1301 total…Saari 3). Three people who committed suicide in the jail did so because they were not being fed and they were beat on a daily basis. The four who died within hours after release was also do to the fact of being beaten before they were released, showing that police brutality is increasing at a alarming rate (Saari 5). Many other cases have been made public through television and other media outlets. One of the most publicized