Discussion on The Issue of Police Brutality

Police brutality is probably one of the most controversial topics going on today. There are over seventeen thousand police agencies in the US but only a small fraction has had proven an officer guilty of using excessive force.The definition of police brutality is the excessive force put onto someone else. Many people in the world overuse the two words police brutality. More times than not people get proof off of one article and listens to what that article says and instead of taking a few minutes to actually stop and research some background information they go straight to the internet and start bashing one side of the article weather it be against the officers or in favor of the officers. So now we should ask ourselves where is the thin line between law enforcement being ethical and them being abusive

Social media has very unfairly portrayed officers as criminals. Paul Davis stated “he argues that partisan activists and the media have unfairly portrayed police officers as criminally violent and misrepresented the victims of police brutality as innocent.” Today the media has had a huge impact on the society of our police officers jobs and life. Most officers have to fight with society on a daily basis to the community trying to prove themselves trustworthy. Police don’t get recognized for the good things that they do for the community, they get recognized for the bad decisions or mistakes they make for the community. Officers should just be able to do their jobs and not have to worry about what could possibly happen to him/herself from somebody who he is trying to help them live there life.

Many people in the world believe that police brutality is highly tied to racism. Paul Davis stated that “there is a growing anti-cop campaign in the country that unfairly labels all police officers racists, crooks and murderers”. Almost all officers are officers to help save people or just to help the community in general out. Every human being makes mistakes some can be good others are bad. Most of the severe cases of where the officer gets bashed on social media probably had a decision to make all by himself and no matter which choice he choose there was going to be an horrible consequence. Policeman are mainly going to arrest people who deserve to be arrested no matter what there color is. Overall this paragraph just states how unfairly most officers get treated.

Way back in 1967 there was a incident where several officers lost their lives. “On October 28, 1967, a scuffle during a routine traffic check escalated into a gun battle that left Newton with a bullet wound in his stomach, one police officer dead, and another wounded. Newton was convicted in 1968 of voluntary MANSLAUGHTER.” These officer were just doing their daily traffic stop to again, try and help in the community drive safely and out of the blue their lives were gone. Newton or the guy who started this gun battle had earlier in his life had started a group called the black panthers which was a group of people who were aggressive towards the police officer and were always trying to do anything that would cause harm to the police or even for them to lose their job. This paragraph just proves that it is not just the officers in the world being aggressive toward the community. It is just one individual who took an act of grace as an officer trying to insult him.

In conclusion, police brutality against our citizens is a serious thing going on in the world today. It all results in the society making unethical decisions on not supporting our officers. Many of our officers today are accused of being racist or crooks. Police brutality is an very important topic because the world needs to know that about ninety-five percent of the police population is here to help and not harm. Police who are trying to help and save our community shouldn’t have to worry about what the community will to do them. Overall our police in the United States shouldn’t be treated the way that they are.