Practice of Violence in American Life

Review on UCLA police reactions with Student and American foreign reactions in the world



“Stand up or you’ll get Tasered again!”(1) They shouted this sentence in terrible atmosphere in the lab of UCLA University. The students didn’t believe this event! Who can believe one migrate student would punish with electric shock, just for didn’t show ID card to community service officers? The officers who were conducting a random chick; although watch of these violent behaviors are not so new in American academic instructions but five time getting Taser shocks to one 23- year- old student is not simply event! We made awarded of some terrible events like taking Hostage (McClendon, 2006) @ (Pitcher @ Poland, 1992) and attack to teachers (Cohen, 2002) in American schools, sometimes. But hitting one student by Police because of ordinary fault is important question for some ethnic groups and campaigns (2)! One of possible answers to these questions is obvious belief: “Violence is American as Cherry pie.”
I want to conceder this belief in frame of violence in American society, American violence abroad and at home! I think violence and use of it for some target, illegal usage (crimes in schools and streets) or legal usage in American foreign policy (in wars), have made situation for another use of violence, in this new situation we couldn’t objected of violent behavior on ethnic groups, because this culture annoyed all of the sorts of American citizens, even far from of the country.
"The World Health Organization in 2002 brought out a report on violence and health that concludes with specific recommendations on how societies can prevent violence." (3) This report and the proposal of Irvin Waller are good studies about violence in America.

Taste it! It is a part of Life!
“Injury inflicted by deliberate means.” This is a definition of violence that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggested (4), the Federal Bureau of Investigation further classifies violence resulting in homicide, into criminal homicide and justifiable homicide (5).
These definitions sometimes are quested in events that have appearing function, like War. For example about Iraq War, "that a growing number of American citizens in coalition nations have urged their governments to withdraw from and they afraid of it has became another Vietnam War "(6). So a lot of "Americans believe that the current strategy causes unnecessary deaths and injuries of coalition and Iraqi troops, as well as civilian contractors, and not adequately meet the insurgent threat "(11). Violent behaviors that acted in Iraq prisons also have fallowed some objections of Americans.
So this state of violence is in front of American’s Eyes questionable! Another statistics about violence is in schools of America;" from July1, 1999, through June30, 2000, there were 32 school- associated violent deaths in the United States. Twenty- four of these violent deaths were homicides and eight were suicides "(7). Student are not single target of these crimes, annually, "over the 5- year period from 1998 to 2002, teachers were the victims of approximately 234,ooo total nonfatal crimes at school, including 144,000 thefts and 90,000 violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) senior high school and middle/junior high school" (8) @ (9). Rather than this appearing form of violence we could see another kind of it in beauty forms for the people! A highly debated topic is the influence of violent content in popular media such as film, television, music and video games. Violence makes many appearances in these, much to the displeasure of parents and politicians. This experience of violence created new discussion that is named: Aestheticization of violence (10). Video and computer games as Andrew Darley said (2000: 23) make "a new and significant mass culture form" and enter of violent stories as subject for play supply "real" arena of life for audiences.
This is the clear portray of violence that comes everywhere and shadows on some part of American culture, you might realize it or not, But it is existence; Americans experience it for some form:
Violence at home: as I said they faced it a lot, although my focus is on academic places but this selection could be main example of extension of violence in deep layers of American society!
Violence in abroad: making this opinion that Violence is a legal instrument for expending peace in the world even it is faced to some objections!
Violence in unclear form: After September11, Americans faced to the new kind of events out of their control, so this belief was extended between them that they have strange enemy and all of the world are against them (11)! This strategy with name of “War on Terror” conceived people that any kind of reaction with any stage of violent would be happen for protecting! So the threat of unclear enemy in the world, created unclear form of violence! In this situation some of reactions with supposed enemy are not called violence; they are named "War on terror"!

Take it easy
“Here’s your patriot act…your…abuse of power!” shouted Mostafa Tabatabainejad, using profanity after screaming out in anguished pain from the electric jolts of a police Taser (12). There are some points in this story. One American- born student that came originally from Iran, Trased by UCLA police for didn’t showing his ID, but how this mistake could answer with this reaction? "Lawyer of Tabatabainejad said there was sign that he was targeted because of his ethnicity although the other student disagreed. Civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman announced separately that he plans to file a lawsuit charging that the American- born Tabatabainejad was singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance (13). Here is not place for discussing details of this event; I want just say that the violence so expended in American cultures that proving the clime of Tabatabainejad's lawyer becomes confused! When the violence is going to be one of American cultural elements, what is the meaning of our proposes about questing ethnicity roots? I think every thing is clear!


References:
1- Cohen, R, 2002, Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960, London, Rutledge
2- Darley, A,2000, Visual digital culture, Surface play and spectacle in new media genres, London, Rutledge
3- McClendon, R, 2006, A Comparative Study of Educational Leadership Characteristics And Attitudes of American, Georgia, Universal Publishers
4- Pitcher, G @ Poland, S, 1992, Crisis Intervention in the Schools, New York, Guilford Press

Web Sides :
1- http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2662158&page=1
2- Go to first website
3- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence
4- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention
5- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation
6- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war
7- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_violence
8- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school
9- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_high_school
10- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticization_of_violence
11- http://fatimachirani.blogspot.com/
12- Go to first website
13- http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/11/19/student.stunned.ap/index.html