Police brutality is when the police use unnecessary force against people. We need to stop police brutality as soon as possible because people are getting injured or worse, for no good reason. 

There are  a number of ways we can stop brutality and one of those ways is empathizing with the police. Many people do not understand what the police go through everyday and they cannot empathize with them. By not empathizing with the police, misconduct arises because the police think that we do not care about them. They do not feel appreciated.  This leads the police to act more harshly towards their community and then police violence happens. (Dean John the person who wrote the Article of "Police Misconduct"). If we learn how to start caring about the police and understand what they go through on a daily basis then we can stop police brutality.

A potential way that we could prevent police violence/brutality acts is by restricting police from using excessive force. For example if a police used a choke hold on someone to get them under control, that is where they should stop.  If they continue to use force, then they should be punished heavily potentially losing their job if the circumstances called for it.("'Defund the Police'"). This could also be a very promising method to stopping police brutality because it will restrain police from using unnecessary violence.  If they were to be caught then they would be tried in court and punished accordingly. 

A good method that we could use to put a stop to police brutality is by making it a requirement that police officers wear body cameras and that they state their name, badge number and their reason for them being at a police stop. ("Defund the Police").This could lower the amount of police brutality because then it would be very easy to catch the police officer and punish him and there would be solid evidence of him using misconduct. 

Some people think that stopping police brutality will result in less police officers. But that is not the case, “police budgets were cut, resulting in 20,592 (14%) fewer officers in 2017, and 20% more gun, knife  and serious violent crimes. The homicide rate also rose 39% from Mar. 2015 and 2019.” ("Defund the Police"). By defunding the police it would cause the rates of police brutality to drop but it would be negative as it would put us all at risk as we would be less protected. Defunding  should not be used as a method of stopping police brutality. Since defunding the police is not a good way to stop police brutality we could enforce the laws against police brutality. If a police officer were to be caught committing the act of any sort of misconduct then they would be severely punished. We would also make sure that the police would be held accountable for their crimes so they would lose their jobs and would have to serve for the amount of damage they caused us. An example could be minor injury would be a fine but a greater injury would be jail. 

Police brutality could be stopped, “If there is a case of police brutality then they should be removed from the force and put on trial and must face the consequences for their actions.”(Prior).. Many times there have been cases of police brutality and the officers would only get a suspension which is not a big deal to them but if we made it law that if an officer were to be caught committing an act of misconduct (excessive use of force) then they would be tried and sentenced accordingly. They could be removed from the police force or jailed. 

 
Everyday there are occurrences of police brutality that you probably didn't even know happened. There are many methods we could use to stop police from using excessive force after the assailant has been safely secured.  Police could wear body cameras and report their stops; making laws that if an act of police brutality occurs then the officer would be severely punished. Also restricting the training of moves that could injure somebody very badly such as choke holds for too long. A way you can bring awareness of police brutality and how it can be prevented is by attending peaceful protests about stopping police violence. Overall getting rid of police brutality would be in society's best interest.