Police Brutality: More than Just A Few Bad Apples.
The existence of police brutality is far worse than just a few key incidents. Statistics throughout the country illustrate this problem is only getting worse. This paper attempts to uncover the problems behind the problems of police brutality and what can be done to fight against it. Most people are aware of the recent increase in police brutality and murder either from personal experience or from those cases that make the news. These cases are reported by the media as individual incidents and are explained as the actions of "a few bad cops." But this analysis fails to notice the nation-wide increase in police brutality and the fact that very few cops are actually prosecuted for their crimes. This increase in police violence is a part of a toughened criminal justice system, which includes the war on drugs, the building of new prisons, the gutting of federal habeas corpus rights, the move toward quicker executions and the criminalization of a generation of people of color.
