ISSUE
This term describes when police use unnecessary, excessive, or unreasonable force against a person.
Police brutality
This perspective is shown when people believe they should actively challenge injustice through protests, campaigns, and other forms of social action.
Activism perspective
Obama supported police departments using this technology to record interactions between officers and the public, helping provide evidence and increase accountability.
BODY CAMERAS
This perspective believes social problems can be addressed through government action, reform, policies, and changes to laws and institutions.
Liberal perspective/Liberalism
When police violence is widely shared through news and social media, it can cause more people across the USA to learn about the issue and become aware of concerns about police behaviour. What impact is this?
Public awareness
This unarmed Black teenager was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
Michael Brown
This perspective is shown by Barack Obama's focus on government reform, equality, justice, and improving relationships between police and communities.
Liberalism/Liberal perspective
This BLM campaign called for governments to reduce some police funding and redirect resources towards community services such as housing, education, and mental health support.
Defund the Police
This perspective believes people should actively challenge injustice through protests, campaigns, organising, and other forms of social action.
Activism perspective
The deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd encouraged more people to join protests, support campaigns, and become involved in movements challenging police brutality. What impact did this have?
Increased activism
This Black woman was fatally shot by police officers in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2020, becoming another major case in the debate over police violence in the USA.
Breonna Taylor
Black Lives Matter believes people should not stay silent when they see injustice and should actively protest, campaign, and speak out to create change. What value does this show?
Taking action
BLM used this type of online action to spread information about police violence, organise supporters, share videos, and encourage people to participate in protests.
Social media campaigns
Which ONE of these values does NOT best fit the activism perspective: taking action, human rights, challenging injustice, collective action, social change or government reform?
social change or government reform
After widespread protests over police violence, some police departments introduced or increased measures designed to monitor officers and hold them responsible for their actions. What impact did this encourage?
Police accountability
What form of police violence was used against George Floyd during his arrest in Minneapolis in 2020 and contributed to his death?
Knee restraint / neck compression
Black Lives Matter's use of protests, campaigns, organising, and public pressure shows that they believe ordinary people can challenge unfair systems and create this.
Social change
After protests over police brutality, Obama created this national task force to examine policing and recommend ways to improve police accountability and relationships with communities.
21st Century Policing TASK FORCE
Which ONE of these values does NOT best fit Obama's liberal perspective: equality, justice, government reform, fairness, policy change, or direct protest action?
Direct protest action
Continued public pressure following cases of police violence has encouraged governments and police departments to consider changes to policing practices and greater accountability.
Police reform
This issue refers to the unequal treatment of Black Americans through policing and other parts of society can be connected to both unfair treatment based on race and the wider problem of unequal outcomes between racial groups.
Racism and racial inequality
Obama believed government could respond to police brutality by improving policing, strengthening community relationships, and addressing inequality. Which two values are most strongly shown?
change and equality
Black Lives Matter activists used this form of peaceful protest, where people lay motionless on the ground in public places to symbolise people who had died from police violence and demand justice.
Die-ins demonstrations/ die-ins protest
“There is a deep distrust between too many police departments and too many communities of color.” This statement was made while discussing police and communities after Ferguson. Who said it?
Barack Obama
If police brutality continues without meaningful change, what could happen to relationships between police and communities, particularly in communities that experience higher levels of police violence?
Greater distrust