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Chanel Sherrod

Debra Dahger
UWRT1102
16 February 2015

Double Entry Journal


Citation:
Sorcesen, Johnathan. "Justice Quarterly." Factors Related to the Killings of Felons by Police
Officers 10.3 (1993): 417-40. Print

Source: Quote (Page# or Paragraph #)

Responses

According to the other perspective police


officers use deadly force only when
necessary. Proponents of this perspective
argue that police use of deadly force is
limited to situations in which the officer
simply responds appropriately to a violent
situation. Page 418

Many people believe that when a police


officer uses force, often to the point of a killing
their opponent, that they are using their
power within reason. And that if the officer
reacts this way he is doing so with just
causation.

Some authors argued that in official reports,


police officers inflated the level of threat
posed by the suspects to give the
appearance of necessity to legitimize their
shootings. Page 419

Is there no way to check the reports that


officers turn in? Could we invent something
that would always keep an eye on officers so
we wouldnt have this problem?

Because questionable killings often involve


minorities, race has become the most
controversial offender characteristic
correlated with police use of deadly force,
Page 419

This is still true to this day, this is the focal


point of my paper because races has almost
been replaced as an unwritten crime whose
punishment isnt time, but death.

Takagi concluded that the threshold of


suspicion for blacks was lower than that for
whites when they were encountered by the
police. He wrote that the police have one
trigger finger for whites and another for
blacks. Page 419

This is one of the points the Black Lives


Matter is trying to confront, by saying that
they matter too and should not be considered
more suspicious for something they can not
control.

These studies often concluded that in the


majority of cases the use of deadly force by

This is the main argument of the All Lives


matter campaign, they believe that police kill

police officers was necessary in response to


threatening situations. Page 420

because they are threatened are not affected


by the color of the person, therefore they are
no discriminant proving all lives matter just
the same.

Disproportionate involvement in crime by a


particular group of offenders obviously
increases the group members chances of
being the victims of a police cause
homicide. Such disproportionate
involvement is often used to explain the
large number of police killings of blacks.
Page 421

If people of a certain race are usually more


active in crime then it is only probable that,
that same race would have an elevated
chance of getting murdered by police.

Matulia concluded that the most


important factor influencing the rate of
justifiable homicides by the police officers is
the level of violence in the community itself,
even when organizational characteristics
and departmental policies are considered.
Page 422

Sometimes people can be at the wrong place


at the wrong time. But people cant control
their living circumstance especially when its
due to a lack of financial bearing.

The economic inequality and the


proportion of minorities in the population
must be included in any future studies which
attempt to explain the rate of police-caused
homicide at the macro level. Page 439

In order to attain unbiased and sufficient


findings, one must consider all aspects of the
situation and look at all the working factors of
their findings.

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