Evaluation of Actions Used to Reduce "Police Brutality" in the U.S.

Police Brutality is one of the biggest crimes against civil rights in the United States today. The cost of having trials with officers accused of police brutality is costing the tax payers millions of dollars every year. For example, the expenses of brutality claims reached an astonishing 20 million dollars for the city of Los Angeles between the years of 1987 and 1990 ("Remedies"1). The city of New York, under Mayor Giuliani, went from paying $14.6 million in police brutality cases to $31.2 million in only four years ("Nation" 126). Rodney King, a man of African American descendant and a victim of severe police brutality, won $3.8 million dollars after the lawsuit on the city of Los Angeles in 1991("Remedies" 2). Situations like these have made citizens more aware of police brutality and the necessity to come up with solutions has risen as well ("Remedies" 1). The neglect of Civil Rights involving officers, who commit brutality acts against civilians, has also brought the attention of the people, as well as the politicians, on the fact that police brutality is a big issue and it needs to be dealt with.