Today's Police - Brutal or Not?

There are handcuffed teenagers beaten bloody with guns. Unarmed people who are shot and killed, cops firing guns carelessly into busy streets.

It is likely to say, today’s police men and women are brutal. Although there are some polices who are not cruel, but many of them are truly vicious. Constantly on the news you hear cases where police men and women are shooting unarmed people or even children. There are many true stories about the way prisoners are treated.

In Florida, some prison guards forced a prisoner to stand in a shower stall, and then blasted scalding hot water on him until his skin began to shrivel away from his body and he died.  Another prisoner said he begged for his life before collapsing in the shower. This reality shows what police men and women do not only to prisoners but other people as well. When police get caught treating people this way they always say, “I thought he had a gun.”

These police officers most of the time are hardly ever punished. Another example where a police men killed a person was in Ferguson, Missouri. An unarmed teenage boy was shot multiple times by a police officer. The teenage boy died on the spot. Later on, the grand jury decided to not indict the police officer. The U.S Department of Justice said they found evidence proving that the police officer shot the teenager in self-defence. Although, when you think back, we know that the boy was unarmed so why did the police officer feel the need to defend himself? It doesn’t make any sense as to why the grand jury decided to make this decision, except for coming to a conclusion that they might have done this to encourage it for monetary gain. This shows that its system is screwed up because they (the government) allow it.

There are police men and women out in the world who are taking advantages of their positions by shooting and killing people and just being very cruel and brutal. Some people feel that these police officers are getting out of hand. The public feels that today’s police officers are brutal and this opinion should not be ignored, because one day it might be them who’s shot by an armed police officer “accidently.”

 

                                                                             ~ Coldmirror