Research Paper on:
The Jeremiah Mearday Case

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of the citys approach to law enforcement. Inasmuch as this particular criminal theory espouses how ones behavior is expressed through ones "self-interests in a material world of threat and  violence" (Collins, 1974, pp. 56-61), white officers James Comito and Matthew Thiel of the Grand Central District took it upon themselves to violate Meardays civil rights without provocation. The conflict  theory revolves around acceptable social behavior - or the lack thereof - when it comes to social order; because the white officers placed themselves above the alleged black perpetrator, they  believed they were justified to convict him without virtue of any proper legal channels by physically mishandling him to the point where he suffered a broken jaw and head injuries.  What is worse is how the officers embellished upon their respective stories of self-defense to such an extent that the investigation found them guilty of using undue and excessive  force, as well as attempting to cover up the incident by filing blatantly false reports" (Anonymous, 1998, p. PG; Roberts, 1998, p. PG). Mearday was originally arrested for battery  against an officer and resisting arrest, however, there were no telltale marks upon either officer to indicate this to be true. The conflict theory is pertinent in this particular case  due to its fundamental component being that of social order and organized coercion. The Chicago police force has a long history of similar behavior based upon the strained relationship  between alleged African American perpetrators and white officers, which reaches back as far as 1968 when the Democratic National Convention became the focus of severe police brutality as "overzealous" officers  attacked protesters as television cameras brought the whole incident into every Americans living room (Washburn, 1998; Johnson, 1998). This holier-than-thou attitude the Chicago police department has historically had toward