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POLICE BRUTALITY

Racial and ethnic minorities, by an large, are convinced that police officers, by an large, have few compunctions against using violence against them. One strong public perception among racial and ethnic minorities is that police solidarity will prevail against civilian efforts to hold police officers accountable for the unacceptable use of force, intimidation, and coercion (Shernock, 1988, pp. 182-194). Another strong public perception is that defensiveness toward racial and ethnic minority civilians on the part of police officers affects the ethical orientations of the police officers (Shernock, 1990, pp. 24-42). A powerful factor negatively affecting the public perception of police accountability in brutality cases is the fact that fines against police officers for such actions are typically paid by the responsible jurisdiction (Damages, 1990, pp. 99-100; Civil, 1990, p. 1480). This type of action on the part of responsible jurisdictions, as justified as it may be, convinces many minority racial and ethnic civilians that individual police officers and police departments have little incentive to cease the use of excessive force.

This research proposes an examination of the relationship between police brutality, the racial and ethnic background of the victim, and the role that a police sub-culture may play in causing police to target racial and ethnic minority persons for violence. Police brutality, as the term will be used in the proposed research, is defined as the use of physical force, intimidation, or coercion that is inappropriate for a specific situation. While this definition sounds reasonable, and, in fact, is a reasonable definition of police brutality, it is, unfortunately, subject to differing interpretations in application because the phrase "inappropriate for a specific situation" tends to be more subjective than objective in character. The definition is quite appropriate for use in this research, however, beca...

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