Protective Factors
The use of body cameras and policies ensuring transparency in police interactions.
What is Policy Reforms and Accountability
Racial minorities, especially Black and Latino people, are more likely to be victims of police brutality.
What is Race and Ethnicity ?
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Who is Breonna Taylor
Men aged 18-29 years, particularly men of color, are at the highest risk of being victims of police brutality.
What is young men?
Excessive or unwarranted use of force by law enforcement officers, often violating civil rights and resulting in physical, psychological, or systemic harm to individuals and communities.
What is Police Brutality?
Anti-bias training for law enforcement to reduce racial profiling and discriminatory behavior.
What is Cultural and Structural Changes
Due to increased policing in regions of poverty, where there is frequently a perceived correlation between poverty and crime, people from lower socioeconomic origins are more vulnerable to police brutality.
What is Socioeconomic Status?
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Who is George Floyd?
People living in economically disadvantaged areas are more likely to encounter aggressive policing due to the over-policing of these neighborhoods and higher poverty-related crime rates.
What is low income communities?
Shields officers from liability in many cases of misconduct, making accountability challenging.
What is qualified immunity?
Programs like restorative justice that focus on healing and prevention over punishment.
What is Community Policing Initiatives?
Police brutality disproportionately affects young males, especially those in their teens and twenties.
What is age?
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Who is Sonya Massey?
Individuals participating in protests, especially those advocating for racial justice and police reform, are at heightened risk of police violence.
Who are protesters and advocates?
Covers the origins of modern policing and its historical connections to systemic racism, such as slave patrols and Jim Crow-era law enforcement.
What is history of policing?
Public education about rights during police encounters and ways to safely navigate these situations.
What is Education and Awareness?
Because they may perceive a higher threat level and take a more aggressive approach to law enforcement, police officers are more likely to use force in regions designated as high-crime zones.
What is High Crime areas?
23-year-old U.S. Air Force Senior Airman who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy in his home on May 3, 2024
Who is Roger Fortson
These disparities are tied to systemic issues such as racial profiling, implicit biases, structural racism, and socio-economic inequities.
What is systemic factors?
Strategies, techniques, or actions taken to reduce the intensity, severity, or risk of conflict, particularly in potentially dangerous situations.
What is de-escalation ?
Advocacy groups and organizations that educate citizens on their rights and foster collective action against systemic issues.
What is Community Empowerment?
The chance of using force during police encounters can be increased by perceived disobedience or suspicious behavior.
What is Suspicious or deviant behavior?
12-year-old Black boy who was shot and killed by a white police officer in Cleveland, Ohio on November 22, 2014.
Tamir Rice
LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly transgender and nonbinary people of color, face elevated risks of police violence, often driven by intersecting transphobia and racism.
What is Gender and Sexual Minorities?
The obligation or willingness to take responsibility for one's actions, decisions, and their consequences.
What is accountability?