Abstract A police officer is a law enforcement official that protect and serve the people, and they are not supposed to abuse the power and violate the rights of the people. Police brutality and racial profile are not issues of the past that are just reemerging today. The beating of Rodney King happened twenty-four years ago, has the police community progressed or regressed? How do we know if police brutality and racial profiling are occurring? Police brutality is the use of unnecessary or excessive force on an individual (Shally-Jensen, 2011). Actions of a police officer based on a person’s race or ethnicity; not the probable cause, reasonable doubt, or a person’s behavior is considered racial profiling (Chapman, 2010). The answer to the first question, “has the police community progressed or regressed?” is regressed. I will discuss two recent cases, Michael brown and Eric Garner. Both cases display actions of regression within the law enforcement community. Police brutality and racial profiling diminishes and defies the public’s trust, as well as bring dishonor upon the law enforcement community in which a high standard of integrity is expected (Davids & McMahon, 2014). Police brutality and racial profiling can be prevented, but we must first know what causes such behavior and how to correct it. There is little research that supports the theory that behaviors such as Police brutality and racial profiling are linked to neighborhood contexts (poverty, high crime rates, single parent homes, etc.). The research design of this study will be used to examine data collected from interviews of forty young individuals in Jacksonville Florida ages 13 to 19 and four police officers. The youth participants are chosen two alternative schools based on their neighborhoods socioeconomic distress, such as, underdeveloped, high rates of unemployment, frequent criminal activity and single parent homes. The goal of the study is to relate neighborhood contexts to police behavior. Introduction Police brutality and racial profile are not issues of the past that are just reemerging today. Since the year 2014, police brutality and racial profiling seem to be growing rampantly. These issues have always been prominent in the world and can be traced back centuries. The Rodney King case occurred twenty-four years ago as of March 3, 2015, it involves acts of police brutality and racial profiling that happened in the twentieth century that shook the nation. On March 3, 1991 in Los Angeles California Rodney king was brutally beaten by more than twenty police officers (Martin, 2005). The beating of king was captured on video by George Holliday (Martin, 2005). Rodney King was kicked, shot with a Taser, and struck with a nightstick excessively (Solomon, 2004). After the police beat King, they tied his hands and feet together behind his back and pulled him face down (Solomon, 2004). As a result, King sustained several injuries including a concussion, damage to his nerves and kidney, and permanent brain damage (Solomon, 2004). The beating of Rodney king became the most well-known police brutality case in history (Martin, 2005). Fast forward to the year 2014 to the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Both cases involve the killing of an unarmed black male by white police officers. Eighteen year-old Michael Brown was killed on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson Missouri by Officer Darren Wilson (Herald-journal, 2014). Officer Wilson confronted Michael Brown with reason to believe Brown had just robbed a store, the encounter resulted in an altercation which ultimately ended after Officer Wilson fired twelve rounds at Brown (Herald-journal, 2014). Some of the witnesses stated that when the fatal shots were fired at Michael Brown, he was already on the ground on his knees with his hands in the air (Herald-journal, 2014). There was video footage of Michael Browns body laying lifeless in the streets (Herald-journal, 2014). Eric Garner was 43 years old when he died from a choke hole delivered by a police officer in New York on July 17, 2014 (Herald-journal, 2014). Garner was approached by officers for selling black market cigarettes and was put in a deathly choke hold after refusing to be handcuffed (Herald-journal, 2014). There was video footage of the entire altercation between officers and Eric Garner in which you can clearly hear Garner saying that he cannot breathe (Herald-journal, 2014). The officers involved in each case did not have to face any punishment for either death which led to protest all over the world. In Ferguson, after Officer Darren Wilson was found not guilty for the death of Michael Brown, violent riots broke out within the city. Protestors of all races and ethnicities carried signs that read “Black lives matter” and others chanted “hands up don’t shoot!” In New York, the protestors were more peaceful than in Ferguson, many of them held signs or wore shirts that read “I can’t breathe”. The protest for