crooked cops
If you saw a person commit a robbery, who would you call? If you saw someone kill another person who would you call? If you were trapped in your own house by a group of four kidnappers and managed to reach the phone to make a single call, who would that call try and reach? The majority of people reading this would have probably answered all three questions the same way, “The police.” As a society we rely on this collective group of men and woman to protect us and help us when we cannot help ourselves. They are normal people put in a position of responsibility, asked to serve for the betterment of our country and the safety of its people. That is a point that many people forget about when thinking about the police force; they are people just like any other, they character flaws and there some good and some bad. Is it impossible to think that every cop should be morally sound and have no lapses in judgment; is it truly a ridiculous standard to hold them to?
To truly feel safe in this country its citizens must be able to rely on this body of people, comprised of men and woman from all walks of life. However, every once in a awhile a video surfaces revealing the weakness of law enforcement. These videos depict cops physically abusing skateboarders, or maybe using excessive force to arrest a suspect. The most recent video to show up reveals a total of twelve cops kicking and beating three suspects for roughly one minute. This is one of the most frightful of brutal cop videos, due to the sheer number of cops involved. To see such a large section of our police force resort to physically harming a suspect is gut wrenching.
How do we combat this type of poor abusive police work? The government should impose stricter regulations for becoming a police officer, to insure the best possible force protecting our streets. The minimum number of cops this would prevent from fulfilling their position would be worth the extra safety these regulations would insure. It is a sad world when pedestrians can not relay on the police to ensure there safety, it is even worse when they increase he potential for danger. We must tread the thin line between fully trusting our men and woman in service and relying on our selves for protection. As the equipment they carry becomes more deadly and their tactics become better honed we must be able to put more and more trust in our policemen and woman.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/19/police.beating/index.html <- article describing the most recent incident.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/19/police.beating/index.html#cnnSTCVideo < – video of the incident
Another video of cop brutality…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxOr3q7nrk&feature=related
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