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This article compiles different studies showing that a culture of racism in police departments disproportionately leads to the harassment and killings of unarmed black men. It also suggests solutions that could lessen police brutality and bring accountability to cops who commit crimes of violence and murder.

Protest from different incidents of police brutality has sparked out range across America. The author Kevin Heade discuss a few stories on events that occurred in Phoenix, Arizona. He displays the ongoing concern of the unrighteous justice.

This website shows the studies and statistics with the rates of police brutality for certain groups of people. This can be used to show how the abuse of power is being used to forward racism into this country even more.

This article discusses how many people are dying because of mistakes that police officers make when trying to capture a person. Most of these officers make mistakes, but more often their mistakes cost an innocent person's life.

This article provides information about the shootings done by police in 2015. It provides different situations that all lead to police shootings.

This seems like a comprehensive collection of police shooting occurrences. When doing any research paper about law enforcement it would definitely be helpful. It is horrible that unjust killings exist.

It is hard to discern the situation after-the-fact. Police officers are put into life-threatening situations but many times, they are dealing with someone who has a mental illness. In addition, the insurmountable evidence of police brutality is undeniable. I think we should re-evaluate our shoot first, ask questions later approach.