Whether it is a senseless shooting at a night club, police brutality, or cops being shot in a protest, there is no excuse for it anymore. It needs to stop.
There is no justification for police brutality; it really exists and is a huge issue. But, not every cop is crooked, and people need to realize that. Not every cop is a terrible cop; most of them have families to go home to just like the rest of us. Society has spent so much time making all cops villains, that we can't see past all the hate. I am not making up an excuse for cop brutality; I'm just tired of the endless vicious circle that is never ending. We need to understand that the media does not show us all of the details. The videos people post on the internet of the brutality being committed don't, either. We are so quick to blame people when we don't even have the facts. Yes, some of the incidents that have happened are police brutality, but some of them are not. I want you to imagine being in a cop's shoes; you are responding to a call that someone is armed and dangerous. What are your immediate thoughts? Will you be able to come home for dinner? Will you ever see your family again? This is what cops deal with on a daily basis. In the past two years, targets have been placed on cops' backs. In the past two years, 182 cops have been killed in the line of duty.
But, that is nothing compared to how many senseless killings cops have been apart of. In 2015, cops killed 1,140 people. Now, not all of those killings are police brutality, and some of them were justified. Either way, that is a staggering number of deaths. It should not be excused, and we should have a better system for dealing with police brutality.
The simple fact is, the killings need to stop. There is no need for it to continue; we need people on both sides to stand up and ban together to stop these terrible crimes. How is it that in this twisted world, the people who are there to protect us are the people we are scared are going to kill us?
We all need to wake up and smell the coffee; we need to realize that the media shows us only what they want us to see. Sometimes, there is a lot more to the story that we think we know.
