is police brutality still alive in America today.?
146863
VERY MUCH SO! However, the "academy" has retrained these "coppers"(ones who steal) into limiting their abuses to psycological torture and in conjunction with court personel so the whole gang can both enjoy and profit rather than create potential liability and negative public relations.
211874
Unfortunately I believe that racism still exists in this day and age.  I have a good friend who was threatened by a cop that if he took him to the country and shot him in the back, nobody would ever suspect it was he that committed the murder.  (white cop black friend).  He ticketed my friend for something frivolous and told him to get the hell out of town.  No kidding....I am appalled that in America today this still happens.  How very sad.
962503
Honestly? I don't think our society (if you mean American society) has ever become sensitive to police brutality against young black men. Or black males of any age. \n\nHowever, it may seem like there has been a sudden shift in occurances of police brutatlity because they (police force) are getting worse in their out-of-control behaviour and actions. The cases of needless deaths of non-violent victims are occuring almost on a daily basis. It is dawning on people how corrupt the department, as a whole, has become. Officers shoot unresisting, unarmed men in the back now and it's outrageous and WRONG.\nIt is white and black men, white and black females.\n\nIt's disturbing. And it's scary. They're getting away with it, and being paid to do it. As a citizen of the general public, you don't even have to make 'a wrong move' to get shot to death today.\n\nAn 18 year old drunken boy was staggering to his own front door to get away from a frightening police squad and they shot him in the back 3 times because .... because why?\nHe was incoherently drunk, young, disoriented, scared and trying to get away from being pelted with beanbags. They had no provocation to shoot him but they did.\nHe was a white male.\n\nIn my opinion, it's not about race anymore (though for some officers it certainly is). For ALL police officers, it's about power now. If you do not surrender yourself completely to a police officer and show to them you are at their mercy, they will do whatever they have to, whatever they want to MAKE YOU. When their lights turn on, your rights are turned off.\n\nEver read the side of their vehicle?\nTo Protect and Serve. \nBut it isn't to protect and serve us. lol\nIt is to protect and serve themselves. \nWho are they?\nThey're employed by government.\nAnd that's exactly who they're going to protect. \nThey are merely an end result of our own government - which, clearly, is out of control and frankly, not at all ours anymore.
411361
the biggest problem in this country is a lack of "accountability". Most police officers who are hated are uneducated about the behavioral sciences of the cultures they are sworn to protect. Their ignorance, lack of empathy and fear of what they do not understand, are all due to a system which ignores the need for educational application towards handling people. New york police can be especially indifferent due to their pompous and arrogant facades. I still respect them because they put their lives on the line, despite themselves!
919787
My husband was a National Guard in Detroit at the time & got activated. He was gone for several weeks during the riots. The t.v. news would say only 2 or 3 was shot or just a few were killed at the end. It was all Lie's. He was a medic & was stationed in Harper hospital in downtown Detroit & saw them carrying in stretchers with 2 & 3 dead bodies piled on them at a time constantly. They didn't want the truth be let out on the local news for fear of things getting even worse. Back then they covered up a lot of the gory stuff, it was not like the news now a days where they tell & show everything.
1098838
I was in a small gang in the Bronx, New York in the early 70's, during the heyday of gangs. It was always about turf and other violations but it was fun and you only got killed if you asked for it. Other than that, you got a chance to test your fighting ability or martial arts skills and you always saw face to face who the hell you wuz fightin'. By the beginning of the 80's most had died out already as we had more important issues to take care of such as becoming useful members of society and getting college degrees. Looks like shortly afterwards California picked up on it, a little too late though (been there, done that) with the exception that these gangs were just a bunch of shoot in the back murderers and drug dealers that deserved to ripped from limb to limb and wouldn't have been able to stand a chance against  us in the old days and would have been exterminated. You've got some active gangs across the states nowadays that ain't about nuthin' except killing their own brothers and bullcrap. If there were more propagation of the arts, and if the government would stop cutting funds for the advancement of such endeavors, there would probably be less gangs roaming around.
761982
yes, there is corruption in all governments at all levels and more so in some countries than in others. americans would rather believe thought that we have the most here but just take mexico for example, every time they get stopped for a traffic violation there has to be a bribe paid, and they get stopped alot. most other countries have very obvious corruption like venezuela, india, and many other third world countries.
940076
Your right, there not all the same. But the ones that have been total jerks, and have taken advantage of their position-have given Police Officers a bad name. The ones who beat up people while they are arresting someone, the ones who get off using their tazers more than once on someone, the ones who treat people inhuman while you are jailed-I could go on and on. I have talked to people, and heard the most ugliest stories-It's a CONTROL factor for some humans using their job to hide behind! BUT, God Bless the good Officers!  They put their best foot forward, and their life may be in constant danger protecting us. They are Angels sent from Heaven!
926881
there are 2 sides to every story. and the way you hear blacks tell it. we were not doing anything. just standing around. which most likely is BS.. you don’t know the full circumstances to the stories. .. those blacks were probably packing heat and fired at the officers. but then again. as I hear the blacks tell it in here. they don’t know ANYONE who would ever do that. so I guess it must never happen.,, police just don’t walk in and start firing. Like the strip club. Oh yeah they just walked in and started firing. The blacks in there of course were not doing a single thing. Probably sitting around singing amazing grace or something right?? Hmmm.. I think not. Its just so funny to hear the blacks on here talk about how people can be prejudiced or racist towards blacks. Look in my 20 plus years experience in working  and living among AMERICAN blacks. The only people who give blacks a bad name is BLACKS.. you do such a good job on your own. And then act like you had not done a thing. I have not come across another culture filled with some of the most victim mentality as well as lazy ill mannered give me a hand out group.. with shakedown leaders like Jesse Race Whore Jackson. .. which adds to Americas perception of blacks. I have friends living in Asia who witnessed all the well mannered blacks in Katrina who were SHOOTING at the rescuers as they tried to save them. The opinion of my friends overseas was. Why are they all so stupid and ignorant.  Not ALL blacks fall into the previous categories. I know some very bright . hard working . responsible very nice ones. But these are the ones who are the exceptions unfortunately... you are not going to find all those dregs who truly DO fit the black mold come in here and dispute it. cause there are so many others that come to their rescue and allow them to carrry on their low life acts..
417945
I don't know why they think the police are so above reproach.Like you said, there is a small number of people in every police dept. who use the badge to brutalize people, and do illegal things under the guise of authority.
257475
We wouldn't be in this shape if we quit playing the worlds police force. Every country that we have ever help out has turned on us and after wards, there isn't much that we can do about it because sticking our noises into there afairs puts our neck on the chopping block, except get it sliced.
721194
Check out this really good article: "The Emerging Paradigm for Policing Multiethnic Societies:  Glimpses from The American Experience", available at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/publications/specialissue/10McDonald.pdf\n\nLook through the paper's endnotes to find other sources on the topic...there seems to be a lot there.
164036
Whoa, step back, take a deep breath...\nIn America there are no armed struggles taking place over race, ethnicity, or tribe, as there are in Africa - central Asia - poorer parts of South America.\nIn America we have laws on the books against racially motivated violence, and those laws are regularly ENFORCED.\nMartin Luther King was an American; he taught us all lessons about non-violence, tolerance, and race that we have taken to heart.  His work is not yet finished...but we are much farther along in stopping the cancer of racism than many parts of the world.\nSo, please don't judge America on one or two incidents you have experienced or read about.  Take us as a whole.
436482
The government claims equality for it's people but very very old habits won't die away so quickly.  Look at the US, there is still some residue of segregation.
469707
This is called police brutality, it is not condone anywhere in the United States. If you experience this, and you get no satisfaction for the internal affairs division of the local police department, I would suggest you contact the FBI and have it investigated under the civil rights statutes. You civil rights may have been violated by this brutality.
797245
I just attended a lecture yesterday that talked about these very statistics.  Our crime rate is actually going down, but our rate of incarceration is going up.  This reflects the US' "war on crime" and "war on drugs" started in the late 70s, early 80s (Reagan, mostly).  It's because we are taking action and using incarceration as the solution.  To really properly analize these numbers, you also have to look at the crime rates of all these nations (we also score very poorly, there, so you still have a point).  The statistics for african-americans is even worse - something like 6000+ african-american inmates per 100,000.
388615
Yes. My brother got a ride to work after he wrecked his car on icy pavement. And I got a ride on a holiday when no bus or taxi was passing by. And the person that wrecks your day is usually yourself. The police is just keeping you from doing even greater harm to the general public. In fairness I must say that none of the above facts happened in the USA. One episode was in Germany and the other in Brazil. You have tough laws in the USA for things that are not even noticed in other countries. Like peeing on the street or drinking in public or prostitution