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Dear Police Chief,

The recent abuse of powers that have been occurring in our city has been ridiculous. Nobody especially our African American residents do not feel safe around the police. The officers are not taking the proper precautions when making easy nonviolent routine stops. I understand that the officers jobs are very dangerous but they need to recognize when they need to use their power (Guns) and when not too. Mothers should not fear for their sons life every time they leave the house because of the color of there skin. The biggest problem is the officers who commit these crimes rarely get penalized by the department. The residents of Chicago beg for you to do something about this topic so our citizens are not wrongfully accused or even killed while they are unarmed. Please take this into consideration and please respond as soon as possible.

Thank you,

The concerned residents of Chicago

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Black Lives matter chant

Wrongful shootings by police

Standing up for rights

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Police brutality and racial profiling has been a problem in America for a number of years and has to be put to an end. A way to approach the problem of police brutality is to make them less like a military and more like a normal law enforcement. One way to do so is to change the training all law enforcement officers go through. According to “ Police brutality is a problem for everyone” in states that. “ No country is as policed as we are ( The United States). We have too many law enforcement agencies and individuals. They are to heavily armed. They are too militarized. They are too quick to violence. They are rarely held accountable.” Having to do with a recent routine traffic stop between a Texas state trooper and an African American women unfortunately ended with a violent arrest and later death. The State trooper whose name was not released was never held accountable because he told officials he felt “ Threatened”. Not only was this a routine traffic stop that had no reason to get violent cases like this happen everyday in America like what happened to David Castellani who got into an unnecessary violent confrontation outside of a Casino for just yelling at officers who happened to be down the street. “ Four officers rush him, take him down and begin beating him -- a fifth officer soon joins in. It is after they've got him under control, lying on the curb with five officers on top of him, that a sixth officer arrives with a police dog and sets it loose on the young man's head and neck. Mr. Castellani's injuries required over 200 stitches” (Police Brutality is a problem for everyone”. Shockingly all five officers were cleared including the dog the fifth officer brought to “detain” Castellani after having four officers pinning him on the street. Police brutality has been a huge problem in this country for many years and it seems like every time the officers find a loophole and get all charges dropped. Another case that occurred in July of 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio between an unarmed black man and a white officer performing another routine traffic stop. Officer Ray Tensing who is facing life in prison for the murder of Sam DuBose who was an unarmed African American male. The officer testified that his arm was stuck in the car as DuBose tried to speed away. “Tensing said he feared he was going to be killed and fired one shot, striking DuBose in the head” ( Mistrial for officer who killed a black man while wearing Confederate flag shirt). This coming back to the idea of better training for law enforcement officers. There was no reason for Tensing to have drawn his weapon and aimlessly waving it into DuBose’s vehicle. There could have been much better precautions the officer could have taken that did not involve his weapon. According to “ Washington Post Database of Police Shootings.” “ Police have killed 991 people in the line of duty in 2015 . So far this year 2016, officers have killed 832 people.” These numbers are exponentially high for the men and women who have sworn to protect and serve their communities. In this case there is clear body-cam footage that shows no threat to Tensions’ life in anyway. DuBose never made any quick movement or lunge, just an explanation of why he was pulled over and closing the car door when Tensing tried opening it.

Not only are police officers wrongfully using their force at unnecessary times they are also racially profiling towards African Americans. Even though in 2015 more white males were killed by police than black males. African American people were 2.5 times more likely to be shot by police than white. “ Even though white Americans outnumber black Americans fivefold, black people are three times more likely than white people to be killed when they encounter the police in the US, and black teenagers are far likelier to be killed by police than white teenagers” “ The Huffington Post” This number has been increasing since 2015 and gotten many people especially African American mothers worried for their children. Like Lesley McSpadden mother of Michael Brown who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 by police. After Brown's death a letter was given to his mother by MSNBC commentator Melissa-Harris Perry;

“ week, along with you, we were broken as we learned that a grand jury found no crime in the killing of your son, Michael. I cannot speak for all black mothers, but I want you to know that many of us felt your anguish through the screen, felt it penetrate our core and break our hearts as we bore witness to your shock and torment. I want you to know: Your son’s life did matter. No decision by any jury, anywhere, can ever change that truth.

As we continue to stand in protest this week and in the weeks to come, we say it loudly, and we say it clearly: Black lives matter” ( Huffington Post).

“Black Lives Matter” A chant that has been cried out at protests, Written on signs and billboards, and even worn on t shirts. The Racial profiling and police brutality that occurs in America has been outrages and has been tearing our country apart. If we Americans want to go hand in hand together to better our country we must put in end to police brutality and racial profiling.

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Police brutality and racial profiling is a problem for everybody not only immigrants and people of color. Its Americas Problem.

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Jr., Leonard Pitts. "Police Brutality Is a Problem for Everyone." Baltimoresun.com. N.p., 30 July 2015. Web. 23 Dec. 2016.
"Mistrial for Officer Who Killed a Black Man While Wearing Confederate Flag Shirt." The Washington Post. WP Company, n.d. Web. 23 Dec. 2016.
N.p., n.d. Web.

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I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education. - Tupac Shakur

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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. - Tupac Shakur

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"EVERY 7 HOURS COPS KILL AN AMERICAN CITIZEN" ( Cops Crisis)

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"Blacks are three times more likely to be shot and killed by police then whites and any other minority group" (Wong)