{"id":5825,"date":"2015-10-12T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2015-10-12T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T00:00:30","slug":"5825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/10\/12\/5825\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scope:\u00a0 <\/strong>I am looking to dissect the underlying roots and causes of police brutality from the late twentieth century to present day.\u00a0 Whites discriminating and being afraid of blacks has been existent in history for an extremely long time, but the idea of police brutality is a relatively recent one and in 1991, a taxi driver named Rodney King was brutally beaten by the Los Angeles Police Department after he refused to pull his car over for speeding.\u00a0 King became the face of police brutality in America and this event caused many aftermath riots, which led to people being killed and the California National Guard to be called in.\u00a0 King had many quotes after this beating, one main quote being, \u201ccan\u2019t we all just get along?\u201d<\/p>\n

A major reason why police brutality exists is due to the fear of something different, which leads to discrimination.\u00a0 This fear causes law enforcement officers, who are predominantly white, to discriminate against these blacks in a way that has caused severe harm and possibly death.\u00a0 The term police brutality is defined as excessive force used by officers where it is not legal.\u00a0 The majority of this police brutality occurs in poor, black urban neighborhoods because the conditions promote crime and these urban neighborhoods are extremely segregated.\u00a0 These conditions strike fear into the white officers, which cause the officers to perform illegitimate searches or in a more severe case, excessive force.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, nothing will change unless every race or ethnicity removes their ignorance and learns about each other, such as cultures, by becoming more empathetic toward one another.\u00a0 This process of destroying the ignorance of our society will begin to vanquish the fear of something different.\u00a0 This will allow more blacks to be involved in political opportunities, and also in law enforcement, which will overall reduce the amount of police brutality in America.<\/p>\n

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Analytical Questions:<\/strong>\u00a0 The starting point or question for me has to be why cannot we all get along?\u00a0 If we learn to throw out this discrimination, this hatred, and this ignorance, will that be enough to stop racism and police brutality?\u00a0 Why does this hatred occur in the first place?\u00a0 Is America indeed moving forward with the relationships between whites and blacks or does white supremacy still exist in our country?\u00a0 America is a country built off of immigrants and we seem to deny that now to people of other races because the U.S. makes it extremely difficult for foreigners to live sufficiently in the U.S.\u00a0 There will be more blacks than whites because the black and population is growing rapidly, so why cannot we stop this discrimination and brutality now or else what is happening could completely reverse from all whites being in power and using excessive force to blacks holding the power and exercising excessive force on whites.<\/p>\n

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Originality:<\/strong>\u00a0 This paper will support the numerous examples of police brutality recently in the U.S. by establishing the roots or the underlying problems of each situation, and building on the fact that fear and discrimination caused these tragic events to occur.\u00a0 My paper is different from previous work because I am going to look at the domino effect of each recent case of police brutality in America and find the reasons why there was excessive force in the first place.\u00a0 I aim to focus also on the ignorance of both whites and blacks, which we closely interpreted from DuBois\u2019s The Souls of Black Folk<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Practicality:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are many secondary sources available to me on this subject, especially using the databases and books in the library.\u00a0 Not only are there sources on police brutality, but also the racism and discrimination behind it.\u00a0 These sources will provide specific evidence and detail to support my argument that white police officers hatred of blacks leads to excessive force, which begins with the ignorance of not knowing about the culture of blacks.\u00a0 This ignorance then leads to fear on some level of something different.\u00a0 I will also be able to use the recent events of police brutality and the evidence and results from these horrific cases to further support my arguments as well.\u00a0 The case on Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York City, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, and Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in Cleveland, are just some recent examples that will support my arguments that fear and discrimination occurred for the officers, which lead to excessive force and in these cases death for the victims.<\/p>\n

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Bibliography:<\/p>\n

Chaney, Cassandra, and Ray Robertson. “Racism and Police Brutality in<\/p>\n

America.”\u00a0Journal of African American Studies<\/em>\u00a017, no. 4 (December 2013): 480. Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File<\/em>, EBSCOhost<\/em>\u00a0(accessed October 2, 2015).<\/p>\n

Chaney, Cassandra, and Ray V. Robertson. \u201c\u2018Can We All Get Along?\u2019 Blacks\u2019<\/p>\n

Historical and Contemporary (In) Justice With Law Enforcement.\u201d Western Journal of Black Studies <\/em>38, no. 2 (Summer2014 2014): 108-122. Race Relations Abstracts, <\/em>EBSCOhost (accessed October 1, 2015).<\/p>\n

Hays, Zachary R. Police Use of Excessive Force in Disorganized Neighborhoods.<\/em> LFB<\/p>\n

Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2011.<\/p>\n

Holmes, Malcom D. \u201cMinority Threat and Police Brutality: Determinants of Civil<\/p>\n

Rights Criminal Complaints in U.S. Municipalities.\u201d Criminology 38, <\/em>no. 2. (05, 2000): 343-367.<\/p>\n

Weatherspoon, Floyd D. African American Males and the Law: Cases and Materials.<\/em><\/p>\n

University Press of America, 1998.<\/p>\n

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