Essay On Aggressive Policing
Abstract
This paper deliberates the issue that has developed between minority communities and the local law enforcement. Gau and Brunson (2010) indicates that aggressive policing is used by police to control social disorder. However, this has created an uprooting with the relationship built between the police and their community. The other four articles discussed within the paper supports Gau’s statement by giving the reader statistical evidence of the damaging effects that have occurred over the years. This paper focuses on the most common form of aggressive policing that causes discrepancies within this nation. In terms of decreasing social order within communities, law enforcement mainly use the “stop-and-frisk” tactic.
The Effects …show more content…
To do this, tactics, like stop and frisk, have been developed to set punishments for wrongdoers in the community. Local police departments use stop and frisk to reduce the amount of social disorder within their jurisdiction (Gau & Brunson, 2010). However, aggressive policing like stop and frisk tactics have grown out of control. Recently, the number of stops that law enforcement have made each year has greatly increased over time. To make matters worse, it seems that many of the individuals experiencing this tactic are the minority …show more content…
If the “stop-and-frisk” tactic is going to be continued, then the amount of racial profiling needs to be reduced. Stops can be made in ways that do not focus on certain classes of people (Weisburd, Wooditch, Weisburd, & Yang, 2015). For example, law enforcement can restrain from having to use the use of force unless it is absolutely needed. Studies have found that when frisks are performed, 34% of the occurrences included force (Ferrandino, 2015). Finding these ways, will allow African Americans and other minorities to feel less targeted and more respected as human
This paper deliberates the issue that has developed between minority communities and the local law enforcement. Gau and Brunson (2010) indicates that aggressive policing is used by police to control social disorder. However, this has created an uprooting with the relationship built between the police and their community. The other four articles discussed within the paper supports Gau’s statement by giving the reader statistical evidence of the damaging effects that have occurred over the years. This paper focuses on the most common form of aggressive policing that causes discrepancies within this nation. In terms of decreasing social order within communities, law enforcement mainly use the “stop-and-frisk” tactic.
The Effects …show more content…
To do this, tactics, like stop and frisk, have been developed to set punishments for wrongdoers in the community. Local police departments use stop and frisk to reduce the amount of social disorder within their jurisdiction (Gau & Brunson, 2010). However, aggressive policing like stop and frisk tactics have grown out of control. Recently, the number of stops that law enforcement have made each year has greatly increased over time. To make matters worse, it seems that many of the individuals experiencing this tactic are the minority …show more content…
If the “stop-and-frisk” tactic is going to be continued, then the amount of racial profiling needs to be reduced. Stops can be made in ways that do not focus on certain classes of people (Weisburd, Wooditch, Weisburd, & Yang, 2015). For example, law enforcement can restrain from having to use the use of force unless it is absolutely needed. Studies have found that when frisks are performed, 34% of the occurrences included force (Ferrandino, 2015). Finding these ways, will allow African Americans and other minorities to feel less targeted and more respected as human