Essay Prompt: Why do police shootings seem more common now than ever before? What is happening to American society that 549 criminals (according to the FBI database) or “suspected criminals” have been shot since this year? Who is to blame? Is it the millennial society, the police in particular states, racial profiling, or a mixture? There has been some controversy over whether or not police officers are racially profiling suspected criminals. What are some of the effects of this police brutality?