Introduction
Police brutality is defined as the use of excessive force by the police assumed to be carried out in the effort to execute their duty. Police officers are mandated to enforce law and order as set aside by the constitution of every state. However, on several occasions, police officers have been put on check while overreacting or taking illegal actions in the execution of their mandated task. Police are mandated to protect the citizens by ensuring they follow the law and maintain order. On the other hand, citizens are required to adhere to every law set aside failure to which non-compliance measures will be enacted upon them. The execution of the law must be carried out based on fairness and equality. This paper is aimed at discussing strategies. The police brutalities and their impact on citizen noncompliance. The main aspect to be discussed here will be the prevention efforts and the intervention efforts. These could have been used both historically and today to addressing police brutality and the impact of citizen noncompliance. With the regard to the community efforts such as the program’s services, and training on the same.
Intervention strategies
Through training
According to Smith, (2019) training of both police officers and citizens is a crucial preventive measure that has been put in place to curb police brutality and citizen non-compliance with the law. During police, training to undertake their work some special training is being offered to the police on how best they can undertake their job with minimal or no brutality incidences being reported. Civic education is also carried out to educate the citizens on the rights as well as how best they can adhere to the laws of the state.
Tracking complaints about an officer’s use of excessive force.
This is a key strategy that has been employed currently to prevent police brutality. This is enacted through close negotiation between the police and any citizen who is being accused of breaking the law. Any complaint about a police officer is keenly followed up, legal action is taken if the officer is found to have applied excessive force. The positive impact is noted through the application of this strategy. When a citizen is being arrested, he/she is supposed to surrender him/herself to the police for the law to take its course (Prenzler, et al, 2013).In the case of criminal cases, the police are required to apply professional measures while arresting and executing the law against the accused person.
Demilitarization of police forces in their course of action.
Regular meetings between the police and civilians are applied in the effort to do away with police brutality and citizen none compliance with the law. This gives a platform for the police to explain to the citizens the course of law, the importance of adhering to the rule of law, and possible reputations in case one fails to adhere to the law. The citizens are given a chance to ask for clarity on the existing laws and the practice of execution of the law (Fairchild, 2020).This meeting creates room for citizen and police interaction in the informal situation thus bridging the nay gap and creating strong bonds between the police and civilians preventing the occurrence of police brutality.
The prevention strategies
Use of body camera
Current strategies have been put in place to mitigate the impact of police brutality in society. To combat police brutality several strategies have been formulated about having police reform. Through the use of body cameras, the community society has been protected in a way. This strategy has worked successfully since the body-worn camera will help to identify any activity and form of brutality that the police have managed to the civilian. According to Fan, (2018) the rights of the citizens must be respected and this only can help to bring compliance to the police in the society. It is believed that since police have the body camera their likely hood of committing a crime or any misconduct will be less since they understand every action is on record.
Civilian review boards
This is one of the proposed solutions to police brutality, they use of these boards grantees that the police are doing their jobs well this help enhancing the public and police relationship (Ofer, 2015). Although it has worked steamily and successfully there are some critics by being staffed by the police who make use of weak, or even there are is a lack of authority so that one can order for an investigation into the police department.
The lawsuit and qualified immunity
Police use of any force is a tort any police should be held liable for any damage in case they are evolved in taking unconstitutional actions. According to Rudovsky,(2019). In case of police brutality it is important to take civil action to the court level this could be heard in a fairly resulting in the judgments which deter the future kind of misconduct of the police department helped in reducing brutality and calling for civilian compliance.
Conclusion
Success and failures of both the intervention and prevention efforts of mitigating the police brutality and the Impact of Citizen Noncompliance could be used to solve the problem we have in our society. The issue of police brutality is a source of worry in the society, but there is a hope if we could put the relevant measures in place. To elaborate on this we need to make use of the main intervention approaches such as training both the police and the citizens, making use of some approaches like demilitarization of the police as well as tracking the police activities and behavior. On the other hand in the event of coming up with the preventive measures it is imperative to consider the use of some strategies like the use of body camera, the use of civil review boards and setting legislation which world restrict police from acting with use of excessive force. The world without police brutality will be harmonized.
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