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Policing is an extremely important profession and is very necessary in order to maintain law and order in the community. Police department is responsible for the safety and security of the citizens by enforcing law and order upon them and catching the criminals. In order to do so, the corporation between the police department and the citizens, especially minorities, is very important (Trojanowicz, & Bucqueroux, 1990). Most of the time, the police department and the officers try to maintain an air of friendliness and corporation between them and the general public, but in some instances, it has been observed that these efforts fail badly (Shearing, 2018). Most of the time, this breach is done from the side of police officers. One of the prominent instances is a recent incident that took place in Oshawa, where two police officers beat a black youth, Dafonte Miller, with a pipe.

The details of the incident state that Toronto Police Officer, Michael Theriault, and his brother, beat a young black boy, Dafonte Miller, with a pipe. The beating was done so brutally that the poor boy lost one of his eyes ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"eZ3HSW0r","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}Trial begins for accused in Dafonte Miller beating}, n.d.)","plainCitation":"(Trial begins for accused in Dafonte Miller beating, n.d.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":11,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/aDSOzgCJ/items/4E2FALQH"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/aDSOzgCJ/items/4E2FALQH"],"itemData":{"id":11,"type":"motion_picture","abstract":"The long-awaited trial of two men, one of them a Toronto police officer, accused of beating Dafonte Miller, began Tuesday. Pam Seatle has day one at the courts.","dimensions":"3:15","source":"YouTube","title":"Trial begins for accused in Dafonte Miller beating","URL":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1RCzi-r3B8&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2020",1,14]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Trial begins for accused in Dafonte Miller beating, n.d.). The incident took place when Michael was off duty, and the police officer brothers claim that they arrested the youth lawfully, however, the witnesses and the supporters of the boy tell a different story.

The number of such cases is increasing day by day, which is a worrying matter for both the police department and the government. The general public, especially the minorities are suffering at large due to this issue. The police services can improve their relations with the general public by refining the communication between the police department and the general public (Smith, & Holmes, 2014). In addition to this, the air of terror and misunderstanding needs to be cleared, and many misconceptions about the police department also need to be removed (Nhan, 2014). Hopefully, a considerable difference will be seen between the numbers of such instances.

References

Nhan, J. (2014). Police culture. The encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice, 1-6.

Shearing, C. (2018). Reinventing policing: Policing as governance. In Policing change, changing police (pp. 285-307). Routledge.

Smith, B. W., & Holmes, M. D. (2014). Police use of excessive force in minority communities: A test of the minority threat, place, and community accountability hypotheses. Social Problems, 61(1), 83-104.

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Trojanowicz, R. C., & Bucqueroux, B. (1990). Community policing: A contemporary perspective. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing Company.