Police abuse remains one of the most serious human rights violations in the United States. Over the past decade, police have acted out in ways that have made people wonder "are our officers of the law really doing their job?" Unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal choking's, and rough treatment have all contributed to the ever-present problem of police brutality in America. The fact of the matter is that most of these incidents go un-reported or un-noticed. Through research, we seek to identify the causes of police brutality, and what we can possibly do to end it.#
             In order to research police brutality, I have examined numerous online journal articles. These articles are written by professional analysts that specialize in investigating specific incidents involving police misconduct.
             Although it can take place anywhere, police brutality is said, due to reported statistics, to take place more often in fourteen of America's largest cities. Those cities are Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Boston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Portland, Providence, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. So much so that there have been systems designed to stop brutality in these cities which have unfortunately failed.#
             Brutality has been mostly attributed to certain shortcomings in recruitment of officers, training, and management. Police abuse experts, and some police officials, refer to "problem" officers, by which they mean officers who either have significant records of abuse or significant records of complaints from the public, and who thus should receive special monitoring, training and counseling to counter the heightened risk that they will be involved in some future incident of misconduct or brutality. Another shortcoming that goes along with all of the above is the lack of information about trends in abuse along with information regarding the police departments' ...