Police Brutality
The authors of these articles cited several studies to support their argument that African-Americans are the main targets of police brutality. Americans of any race can become victims of police brutality but statistics show that 87% of all documented police brutality cases in 1995 involved African-Americans. Police brutality has been around for a long time and it seems to have worsened over the years. According to Paynes, (1992), “The unrelenting brutality police wage against Blacks has never been the occasional ‘sense less’ aberration it is with others. Police brutality towards Blacks, on the contrary has its own cruel logic once you understand the racial history behind it. Plutarch described how the ancient Spartans used to control the Helots by weeding out the most spirited young men as a lesson to the others who would follow them. There is a similar rationale behind the excessive force police routinely inflict on African-Americans. It is part of a historical patte
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