Police brutality can be a very horrible crime, in the rare times that it is committed. There are over millions of police encounters between the public and the police every year and nowhere near ten thousand reports of police brutality. This is not justifying the actual act of police brutality at all it is just pointing out the likelihood of it happening. There will be more on the news about the wrong doing of one officer than there will be about the amount of good things than an officer has accomplished. That is one reason police brutality is seen as such an epidemic. The actual odds of a police officer assaulting a citizen are very low. There is a large percentage out of all the reports filed against police that are false reports, some people try and make these false allegations against police officers just to try and get out of the crime they committed or just to make it harder on the officer. The public creating riots over “Police Brutality” cases cause more deaths, injuries and violence than the actual crime committed by the police officers. For example the riots that started because of the Mike Brown case had masses of people fighting and protesting for what? The conviction of an officer who was just doing his job and what he was trained to do. …show more content…
Therefore, how would a person know how much is too much? The rule of thumb is typically a common sense one: You’ll know it when you see