Rion Amalcar Scotts The Etiquette Of Police Brutality

Patrick and Hall in â€Å"In Defense of Self and Others† write, If effective law enforcement is to be maintained, the race must not be to the swift. The fleeing criminal, regardless of his offense, must be considered the author of his own misfortune.† Policemen only use force in response to the situation they are in. Day to day Police men and women have to make difficult choices. The decisions they make often lead to controversy. Two sides are then created. On one side, there are people that believe police are bullies that do as they wish; the other side believes officers act as they see fit and do the best they can to keep the public out of harms way. â€Å"The Etiquette of Police Brutality† by Rion Amalcar Scott represents the first view and†¦show more content†¦He also starts with how he read about cases of police brutality that mostly involved â€Å"Black and Brown suspects.† This informative piece’s purpose is to show how police office rs continue to use excessive force without consequences. With the recent number of police shootings involving black Americans, Scott sees police as bullies that do whatever necessary to get their way, so he uses the text to show them in that light. The few statistics that Scott uses are from credible sources, but the rest of the writing is purely anecdotal. He relies almost entirely on emotional appeals. â€Å"In many of the above cases, such as the Chamberlain case, police were cleared of any wrongdoing or faced relatively light or unspecified punishments, a situation that I imagine leaves police feeling comfortable in deploying any act of violence in their toolbox, no matter how reckless, if it leaves them standing when all the smoke from the gunfire has cleared. However, for much of the populace, that knot in their chests when a squad car sidles up next to them in traffic is the twinge of sheer terror.† Scott does not do much to set up how credible he is in the text. Witho ut using facts and evidence or speaking from personal experience, Scott’s writing lacks ethos. However, Scott’s writing does do a good job in showing officers in a completely different light than how Bolgiano portrays them. â€Å"When assessing a law enforcement officers use of