Police brutality in the United States Police officers are supposed to protect us from criminals danger; federal agents are supposed to protect us from terrorist attacks, and CIA agents are supposed to collect and evaluate information about our enemies. All of these law enforcement officers work together to provide us with the ultimate protection, but this decent purpose changed to become a terrifying nightmare for citizens in the United States. The sad truth about the policing system in the states is that many law enforcement officers use excessive force on powerless individuals or groups such as minorities, the young, and the poor in order to complete their jobs. Police brutality is one of several forms of police misconduct; in fact, it is now one of the US government’s biggest concerns because it violates human rights. So what does it mean?
The influx of prisoners poses issues such as gang rivalries, and violent confrontations, not only among the prisoners themselves but also between them and the prison guards. At Corcoran State Prison, on “gladiator days” officers forced rival gang members to fight, and shot them both for entertainment(Schlosser). In private Juvenile detention centers such as YSI facilities, staff often choose to not report most assaults and major fights to avoid scrutiny for violating their contracts and the rules of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Overcrowding also leads to inconveniences such as double-bunking, which urges aggression, violence, and stress-induced mental disorders. The incarceration system in the United States has inflicted much damage on societal well-being, caused by privatization of prisons, war on drugs, and overcrowding of prison cells.
Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates, pressuring them to surrender their food and other resources. This is a way to gain psychological control in jail, and most often rape happens in jail also. Rape is not only a physically and psychologically damaging experience, inmate’s experiences some form of pressured or coerced sexual conduct while incarcerated. They also murder or kidnap other inmates to show a psychological gain and control of other convicts. This is a feeling of control and authority and power in jail.
In the Abu Ghraib prison scandal of 2004, Iraqi prisoners were interrogated where accounts of psychololgical, physical and sexual abuse, including torture, rape and homicide. This “form” of interrogation was practiced my U.S. military police at the prison. Although the solders are responsible for there actions they where under strict orders that went against the Geneva convention conduct of war. When the scandal surfaced the U.S. government denied all knowledge and participation and blamed the solders. After comparing the Abu Ghraib schandle and the Milgram experiment its easy to see that the government had a big roll in influencing soilders.
They called the president “Kaiser Wilson”. These times caused many people to become quite upset with the suffragists. They believed they were being unpatriotic. Many angry mobs attacked the suffragists and eventually they were arrested for “obstructing traffic”. Although they were sitting in a cold cell, their fight did not end there.
That means no source of income. The children would grow up to have a fear of society and a loss of trust. This means that there would be many secrets between these peoples. Some unfortunate First Nations peoples will not parent right as they were not taught right because of the abuse. They may pass that experience onto their children, and their children's children and so on.
The novel is a story not only about what happened to author and her family, her relatives in that period of time, it also describes the author’s perspectives toward the political problems from the age of ten through her growing time. In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi grew up with the series of historical events in Iran through her young eyes, and the Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979 as in the dream of her family. However, she witnessed firsthand how the new Iran and its people, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, were suffered with the awkward changes in the society. With Marji dangerously refused to be silent at this injustice, her parents sent her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial for the young woman who was finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound
Betty Wright ENG G-110 Stament Martyr The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiographical memoir in comic strip style. The setting is during the Islamic revolution in Iran and shows how Marji struggles in her adventure of growing up. Satrapi use panels to go in depth with ideas and puts in history to educate her audience in special panels. Satrapi in the panels with the quote, “to die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society”, shows Marji understanding on the quote dealing with a martyr. A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution for refusing to accept a belief usually religious.
Criminal Justice April 4, 2011 Term Paper For many years, abuse in prisons has been a serious issue and over the years, the abuse has only gotten worse. We see on the news of this happening in other countries but many Americans do not realize this is happening in our country as well, right under our noses. Some of the most unimaginable things take place in prisons not too far from where we live. Everyday, inmates undergo a variance of different forms of abuse. According to www.hrw.org, some forms of abuse are being beaten with fists and batons, stomped on, kicked, shot, stunned with electronic devices, doused with chemical sprays, choked, and slammed face first onto concrete floors by the officers whose job it is to guard them.
I don’t know how the government allows these people to even live, they are causing damage and pain to soldier families and to gay people, the words are so hurtful and damaging that it can even lead someone to commit suicide or kill one of their members, which they’re putting themselves and their children in danger too. It’s funny how they say there’s no tolerance or love when they’re doing