Q This is a discussion post on Police Brutality and Racism. Before answering the following question, you should (1) review chapter 7 on Police Use of Force, (2) watch the documentary on Police C.O.P. Crime of Police Brutality https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=tightropetb&p=documentary+on+police+violence#id=4&vid=2f57e1f72984188cb13f0944ba0c458d&action=view, , (Links to an external site.)and (3) read the text entitled "Is the police racist in U.S.?" posted below. Don't forget to reply to at least 2 peers. 1) What do you think about the link between police and racism? • Is racism such a great issue in our security forces? Are racist attitudes entrenched in police academies and everyday practices, and that the Police has a racist culture? Could police officers reinforce, or even generate, ethnic prejudices throughout their training and work? Is racism an institutional problem? • Or is racism a personal bias of some police officers? • Or are police officers any more racist than society at large? • Or there is not a problem of racism in police? Cases of police racism are anecdotal if taken in consideration the millions of interventions police officers conduct every year. From this point of view, the large proportion of arrests and conviction to black, Latino or Arab people would be simply the result of these groups being disproportionately economically and educationally underprivileged. Is the police racist in U.S.? We have all seen and read in the media shocking news about cases of allegued police racism in the US and many other countries. There is a long list of offences and crimes ranging from simple racist remarks and comments to the killing of unarmed suspects. From 1999 to 2014, 76 unarmed black men and women were killed by US police officers. The shooting of Michael Brown, an African-American student, by police in Ferguson, Missouri sparkled a wave of protest all over America. Ever since the public opinion has been following more closely the cases of police misconduct motivated by racial prejudices. The investigation of police communications in Ferguson and in San Francisco have brought to the light recurrent cases of racially biased comments among police officers. Some of the most notorious recent cases of police brutality against people of ethnic minorities have been even captured in video by witnesses. Although it is not clear that the ethnic background of the person killed was decisive in the use of deadly force, many claim that there is a pattern in all these incidents involving African Americans and other ethnic minorities such as Latinos. The US is not the sole country where there are criticisms against police racism. In the UK there have been several investigations. In 1999, the report of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry concluded that the Police force was "institutionally racist". Currently hundreds of police officers are being investigated for posting racist messages on social media. In other countries such as, Brazil, South Africa, France and Israel, there are currently several investigations on police officers for racist behavior too. In the US and most of these countries, ethnic minorities are largely over-represented in the prison population. In this discussion, each student should share his/her reactions (at least 400 words) to a specific topic or controversy in policing which will be posted on Canvas regularly and comment (at least 150 words) on at least two of your peers' posts. This topic was locked Mar 4 at 11:59pm.