The Alarming Statistics of Police Misconducts (and killings!) in Minneapolis
The Alarming Statistics of Police
Police mercilessness toward Blacks in the United States isn’t new. Be that as it may, without even a trace of a standard definition or great information, the degree of police mercilessness stays hard to measure. Chronicled proof of public hurting of Black bodies by police goes back at minimum to the time of subjugation, when police restrained Blacks and recovered the individuals who got away from enslavement.
1 With the current innovation, police killing of Black individuals is recorded for public examination and utilization. Admittance to these recordings has prompted extraordinary public talk on what comprises ruthlessness, its associations with White incomparability, and the ramifications for Black lives.
Surely, unreasonable utilization of actual viciousness establishes fierceness. Be that as it may, as others have noted, fierceness goes past actual power. It incorporates passionate and sexual savagery as well as obnoxious attack and mental intimidation.
Police Activity That Comprises Ruthlessness
2-4 Bandes contends that the expression “fierceness” conveys more than police unfortunate behavior: “It is police lead that isn’t only mixed up, yet taken in dishonesty, with the purpose to dehumanize and debase its target.”2(p1276) We contend for these more broad meanings of severity yet, in addition, accept that police activity that comprises ruthlessness and that dehumanizes and corruption happens even without cognizant aim.
Blacks are essentially bound to encounter police severity than are Whites, and whiteness bears the cost of security against police utilization of force.5,6 Racially different utilization of power shows that White matchless quality the methodical positive evaluations of whiteness that remain closely connected with the degrading of blackness7-saturates the US policing.
Racial Oppression And Primary Prejudice
Racial oppression and primary prejudice (standards, regulations, and approaches that work in establishments to restrict life opportunities for networks of color)8 adversely influence health.4,8 We contend that police severity is a social determinant of wellbeing, despite the fact that it has not gotten adequate consideration from the general well-being local area. Until this point in time, minimal experimental work has connected police severity to chronic weakness among populaces who excessively experience fierceness.
The Alarming Statistics of Police Misconducts (and killings!) in Minneapolis. I have recently been reading so much about how our cities, particularly Minneapolis, have been financing Police Departments (and police misconduct). I stumbled upon a number that was staggering. Minneapolis has paid more than $25 million for police misconduct from 2003 to 2019, but the pay-out for ONE CASE ALONE accounts for $20 million of that number: the killing of Justine Ruszczyk, the Australian-American woman killed by Muhammad Noor, a Somalian-American police officer.
What Happened To Ms. Ruszczyk
If you can recall that case, what happened to Ms. Ruszczyk was tragic. She should still be alive but by all accounts, her killing was a reckless accident. Noor was not only the FIRST officer convicted of on-duty murder in Minneapolis.
He was sentenced to an unheard of 12.5 years in prison. Prior to charging him, Ada Mike Freeman said that prosecuting Noor would be “the big present I’d like to see under the Christmas tree.” In case this isn’t clear, the city spent $5 million on the remaining victims of police misconduct in a city where police officers are 7x more likely to use force against black people.
And in those cases where the victims died, the killer was not convicted nor sentenced to prison. Compared to Justine’s family, what other victims of police misconduct received were mere crumbs. If life can be quantified, Justine’s life was valued 4x more than all of the victims of police misconduct combined over a 16-year period. And the DA’s office salivated at punishing the man who ended it.
Remember that this is the same city in which Philando Castille was shot while he sat in his car with his family. “I don’t want you to get shot,” his 4-year-old sobbed to her mother in the minutes after Philando lay dying. This is the city of Jamar Clark, Christopher Burns, and George Floyd. The city where the police union president called Black Lives Matter “a terrorist organization.” The layers of bad here are exponential. It is shocking that Minneapolis did not erupt sooner and there are many Minneapolis across this country. This is why we march.
By Niara Savage
