Policing Hatred by Jeannine Bell



Policing Hatred by Jeannine Bell

Analysis

Police hatred has been gaining significant increase from the last decades. Perhaps, this is due to the increasing amount of authorities that allows police to interfere greatly in the matters. Police torture is the act of physical or psychological harm, mainly linked to pain and emotional breakdown. The torturers aimed at the subjugation, the breakdown of self-esteem and moral strength of the detainee. The physical damage cause generates torture by beatings, broken bones, tear, crush, shock, burns, drowning, rape, isolation, and so on. In contrast, the psychological damage generates from sensory deprivation, isolation, humiliation, manipulation, physical and mental disorientation. The purpose of psychological torture is to break the self-esteem and resilience of the victim (Jeannine, 2004)

The brutality of the police has to do with authoritarian models that seek to rule, from the monopoly of legitimate violence institutionalized repressive forces applied by specialists in the exercise of violence to which they are educated, trained and accustomed. There is a constant in the illicit use of disproportionate force, which is described as improper and illegitimate, to define the use of force mismanaged, with emphatic cruelty and savagery. We can talk about indiscriminate violence issued by the State against social protest movements, resulting in police repression, leading to the arrest, massacres and forced disappearances (Jeannine, 2004).

There is an excessive use of force with police officers, police brutality, ill-treatment, and death on suspects while in custody was already taking place, but became a serious problem and out of control since 9/11. According to the Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Police Department, it is a Police Department policy, to place any or all officers charged with a criminal act on paid administrative leave. The number of officers placed on administrative leave with pay, pending a formal investigation is very high. Although the percentage rate for excessive use of force with police officers is high, the majority of these cases are never prosecuted (Geller, 2005).

The term, police brutality, refers to all acts of unjustified cruelty inflicted by police on others. It may include the use of abusive language and physical violence which exceeds a justifiable response to a present threat. Police officers use verbal and physical force in their efforts to contain potentially explosive situations, maintain civic order, and apprehend individuals who are breaking the law. Their response to various situations ought to be determined by the ...