Texas College Student Killed On-Campus

I chose an article that I found on Fox news, about a college student who was killed in an altercation with the campus police at a college in Texas. As a college student, I feel like this article effects me and that's why I chose it. It seems that lately, police have been getting into trouble in many different areas of the United States due to abuse of power, and I think that greatly effects our society and how we feel about the police. There is a relationship between society and law enforcement, I think it is important that it stay one where society feels cops are there to help them, not punish them.

Below is the link to the article about the Texas college student:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/08/texas-college-student-shot-and-killed-during-encounter-with-campus-police/

 

The two following links are scholarly articles that I found relatable to the abuse of police authority.

The first one discusses an anonymous survey that was conducted with over three thousand officers to get a picture of the discipline officers we conducting and to see how fair people were actually being treated. The second one goes a little deeper and beyond the surface details to look at the root of the problem. Surveys were conducted to look at the differences in the officers backgrounds to see why there are differences in the use of force.

URL: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&sid=84b1b560-671c-4e2f-b220-e6ef4f27dc32%40sessionmgr115&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=90016490
DOI: 10.1177/0190272513493094

URL: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=7&sid=84b1b560-671c-4e2f-b220-e6ef4f27dc32%40sessionmgr115&hid=113&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=89945713
DOI: 10.1177/0887403412452424

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The link below leads to a video on YouTube of a report from the local news in San Antonio, about the death of the student and what exactly happened. It goes into more depth about the student's life and even interviews some students who knew him at the college. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6auYjWrzQ

 

 



 Below are two website that I found relative to police abuse. The first one is a website that discusses the trust we need to have in our police officers, but the fact that what we see on the news about police misconduct is making it difficult for our society. It even says that some police are able to escape punishment for abuse of their power.



http://www.traumaf.org/featured/6-4-02police-abuse.shtml

 

The second website has several other articles about police abuse and misconduct. These occur in many different situations and there are many stories in New York alone.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/police_brutality_and_misconduct/