Why Police Brutality is the worst

By: Angel Nuñez

Police brutality has been around since the late 1960’s but it has mostly been happening in

2017 due to the number of killings. This has been the worst year as the whole United States has

been experiencing police brutality but it has been mostly common for colored people. People all

over the United States started doing rallies protesting about police killing, a lot of people came

up with a saying “ Black lives matter” .

In 2017 there were 1,147 kills. 25% (282) of those killed were black people. Black

people are 3 times more likely to get killed by the police than white people. 30% of the black

victims were unarmed compared to 21% of the white victims. There was only 14 days in the

whole year that the police did not kill someone. 92% of the victims were killed in shootings. The

other 8% were killed by tasers, physical force, and police vehicles. Officers were only charged

with crime in 13 of these cases which was only 1% of all killings by police. 9 of the 13 cases had

video evidence (police body cam and dash cameras).

Officers who were identified in 569 cases that only 48 had shot or killed someone before.

12 had multiple prior shootings. Most killings began with police responding to suspected non

violent offences or cases were no crime was reported. 89 people were killed after police stopped

them for a traffic violation. 149 people were killed by police were unarmed. Most unarmed

people who were killed by police were people of color. Black people were most likely to killed

by police, most likely to be unarmed and less likely to be threatening someone when killed. 112
killed by a police had a vehicle as a weapon. 96 of the people were killed when police shot at a

moving vehicle, a practice that many experts believe that it should be banned. Experts, law

enforcement groups and the US department of justice recommend that police be banned from

shooting people in moving vehicles. These shootings are ineffective and dangerous since

shooting the driver makes the vehicle an uncontrollable threat to both the police officers and the

public.

In my opinion i believe that police should not open fire towards citizens unless they have

a gun but also they shouldn't try to go for the kill right away, i think that they should just fire

where the suspect is holding the weapon but because most of the killings are against people

unarmed they should just use their pepper spray or their tasers instead of their guns.