Pros And Cons Of Police Officers

Riding in the car with my lifelong partner, we get a call on the radio stressing they need officers to a local Walmart. When we pull up, there is a crowd of people and in the middle of them are two Older men fighting. One white and one black, the black male was on top of the other hitting him repeatedly. Tackling him instantly, all phones were on us. The police officers; people recording us and screaming at us why we’re hurting him. We don’t know the full story yet, we know one was on top of the other assaulting him. Of course, we must arrest him first, using force at that. Angrily being recorded from every which way, and the crowd screaming things like “Hey why are you hurting him!” “Get off him!” “Racist cops you’re all corrupt!”. Surprised

Police officers have been used for a long time and have always been very highly respected and looked up to. That is until recent. Over the past 10 or so years, officers have been ridiculed, scapegoated, discouraged, and most importantly disrespected. 100 years ago, the public supported officers in just about every way they could. It just seems the complete opposite now. The media is against them for views and attention, officers have harder jobs then they once did, and the public makes it hard to want to protect and serve. These are the reasons officers have changed and what the media says and does against them to make the world a much less safe

But there’s also no way of getting around the idea that it causes more harm then good. And more harm to police than most. Year after year police are ridiculed and beaten up through words, videos, articles, the list continues. It’s rare to find someone saying a good thing about officers who are just trying to do their job. Many times, videos don’t have the full story, articles have a biased writer, and people speaking about cops are uninformed and judgmental. The media likes to twist around real stories because it gives attention mostly and what millennial doesn’t love attention? The past couple years have been the worst however, with different situations like Mike Brown for example. Officers are very commonly misjudged on their actions because people don’t know the situations and actions needed to resolve a situation. Officers must handle every situation like it could be a deadly one and there can be no chances for them to get hurt. People tend to be much more harsh and disrespectful on social media then anywhere else. Not just speaking about police officers, but in general. It only makes sense that they would also be extremely vulgar with no filter. News stations must be somewhat correct and while people posting on social media can have no idea what they’re talking about at all. But others will believe them because most people believe everything they read on the internet. It’s a bad habit many people