Races of different color aren’t protected by law enforcement but are targeted by them. Police using fire arms in a routine arrest has become more prevalent. It seems that instead of using their TAZE guns which according to Tim Dees an officer since 1979, “Few people can resist the stun of a TASER–I’d say far less than 1%.” Therefore, why do law enforcement officials use the deadliest technique more often than none? Reality is that many of these shootings actually turn out deadly for the non-officer which is most likely unarmed. Some crazy statistics show just how much cops abuse their privileges to hold a fire arm. It is said that officers killed nearly 102 unarmed African American civilians in 2015. That is nearly 2 each week. About 1 and 3 black people killed were identified later as unarmed. Out of all the unarmed people killed in 2015 37% were African American and that is despite the fact that African Americans only make up 13% of the entire population. Unarmed frican Americans were killed at a rate 5x faster than their white counter parts. With all the loss and carnage involved in these cases, rarely were officers arrested or charged of crime. In fact only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 resulted in an officer being charged. Only two of those 10 officers were convicted, and only one received jail time. The officer arrested cut a deal and got to serve his jail time for his full year sentence only on the weekends. We understand what justice is and this is not justice. The families of all those victims must now live without their son, daughter, father or mother. They have lost so much and the police have lost nothing. News reporting has opened our eyes to corruption and its our turn to act now. Protest groups such as “Black Lives Matters,” are so important to have to raise awareness. The corruption needs to stop, the evidence is there now it is up to us to convert change into society.
“Police Killed More than 100 Unarmed Black People in 2015.” Mapping Police Violence. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2016.
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