Journal: Qualitative Research Journal

Police Brutality and African American Males

Progress

The research question was what are some of the factors related to African American

males being targets of police brutality at disproportionate rates? The main progress in this topic

is that racism is

said to be

one of the main factors behind police brutali

ty against African

American males

(

Unnever

, 2018)

. African Americans have been racially stereotype

d

as

aggressive and crime

-

prone people with African American women being less considered to be a

threat to the police force

(

Unnever

, 2018)

. According to stud

ies, police tend to fear African

American males, always suspecting that they are criminals or individuals who are about to

commit crime, and armed and that is why they tend to be brutal towards them.

Problems

The main challenges or obstacle I see in

devel

oping

my

research question is that

there are

limited researches conducted to determine the factors that drive the police to be brutal towards

the African American males

(

Unnever

, 2018)

. With limited research, it means that there are

minimal

literature

readings

available for review and therefore,

I

must

conduct a research and get

first

-

hand information from the police force

(

Unnever

, 2018)

. The main challenge that

I

might

face is interviewing individuals in the police force about the factors t

hat may have driven either

of them into being brutal towards African American suspects since there are strict consequences

for individuals founds to have violated the police policies and professional ethics.

Plans

The main plan towards addressing these ch

allenges is developing a discrete research

methodology. The discrete research methodology will focus on maintaining the privacy of the

respondents, allowing them to give honest recounts of when they engaged in police brutality and

Police Brutality and African American Males

Progress

The research question was what are some of the factors related to African American

males being targets of police brutality at disproportionate rates? The main progress in this topic

is that racism is said to be one of the main factors behind police brutality against African

American males (Unnever, 2018). African Americans have been racially stereotyped as

aggressive and crime-prone people with African American women being less considered to be a

threat to the police force (Unnever, 2018). According to studies, police tend to fear African

American males, always suspecting that they are criminals or individuals who are about to

commit crime, and armed and that is why they tend to be brutal towards them.

Problems

The main challenges or obstacle I see in developing my research question is that there are

limited researches conducted to determine the factors that drive the police to be brutal towards

the African American males (Unnever, 2018). With limited research, it means that there are

minimal literature readings available for review and therefore, I must conduct a research and get

first-hand information from the police force (Unnever, 2018). The main challenge that I might

face is interviewing individuals in the police force about the factors that may have driven either

of them into being brutal towards African American suspects since there are strict consequences

for individuals founds to have violated the police policies and professional ethics.

Plans

The main plan towards addressing these challenges is developing a discrete research

methodology. The discrete research methodology will focus on maintaining the privacy of the

respondents, allowing them to give honest recounts of when they engaged in police brutality and