Police Brutality

 

An essential part of developing critical analysis skills is self-reflection. In this activity, you will have the opportunity to consider how critically analyzing your topic of diversity has affected your life and how you view the world around you. This is your time to think about your personal experiences and your beliefs, assumptions, and values. Completing this activity will result in a draft of the reflection section of your project. It also provides an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your project submission.
Directions
In this activity, you will describe how using critical analysis influences your life and your perspectives. First, you will describe how critical analysis skills have affected your personal experience. Next, you will describe how examining your bias has influenced how you perceive the world. Finally, you will explain how critical analysis skills can positively impact your academic or professional lives.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Describe how critically analyzing your topic has positively informed your personal experience.
2. Describe how examining your bias has altered the way you perceive the world.
3. Explain how critically analyzing diversity can positively influence your field of study or profession.

 

Police brutality

 

 

Watch the below Fox News Fox & Friends (Dec. 7, 2014) video, Are Police Tactics the Problem? (Interview of Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke); and NBC Today, Excessive Force? Outcry After Man Dies in NYPD Arrest (July 20, 2014).

1. Police Tactics [5 min.]
https://video.foxnews.com/v/3928230229001#sp=show-clips
2. Are police tactics the problem?
Copy/Paste URL if video does not play:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3928230229001
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke weighs in
3. Excessive Force [3 min.]
https://www.today.com/video/today/55685750#55685750
Read:
Hey Ferguson (I ATTACHED PICS OF THS)
Using key terms and concepts from the reading, answer the following questions: (Reference should be made to materials provided in this assignment.)
1. To what extent is police use of force and coercion inevitable?
2. Is police brutality also inevitable? Explain.
3. Why do you believe many members of minority communities believe the police use excessive force on a regular basis?
4. Is there a war on police? Explain.