So if you've read my first post, I was in the midst of choosing a theme to write about for my English paper this semester. I did end up choosing police brutality as my theme because it is interesting to study. Also, because I am majoring in psychology I will be taking the psychological aspect to this and study why policemen may exert brutal physical harm to their criminals. Some questions to start my research:
How much stress is the average police officer able to endure?
What other stressors impact the officer other than the obvious work related stress?
How could an officer cope to these stressors instead of expressing them though their job?
Why do they actually feel as though it is okay to exert this over the top brutality?
Police brutality is very important and has been a hot topic on the news lately. Many teenagers and young adults find this wrong and believe it is happening more often now-a-days then before. The case of brutality strikes us humans as morally wrong (well. . . because it is), but most people just see the actual violence. Not many understand why this happens, and I find it important to educate people of the terrible wrongdoings and also help them understand how and why it happens.
Police brutality is clearly a disturbing part of enforcement, but what exactly brings a police officer to exert this kind of violence and how could we possibly tone down this brutality?
A couple more questions you might consider: what coping skills, if any, are police officers taught? Do they have people to go to when they feel overwhelmed? Is seeing counselors or psychiatrists encouraged?
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