A Shot In The Dark, often comic at times sheds light on a very serious epidemic that is continuously growing within our society, and that is the increased “Cop Killing’s” of unarmed citizens. This parody poked fun at the statistics surrounding this dilemma. I found the video funny at times, but in the back of my mind I kept wondering if they were going to address issues that have been highlighted most recently in the news relating to the killing of innocent individuals such as Tamir Rice, Treyvon Martin and many others. During the interview with David Klinger, he was able to rattle off the stats of bicycles being stolen, home burglaries and the inventories of bullets but not able to articulate the statistics of the number of bullets shot as well as the number of actual police shootings. Moreover, according to the interview, police departments are mandated by law to keep a record of police shootings to be presented to the Department of Justice; now here lies the dilemma, even though they are mandated who is holding the police departments accountable. According to the book, Cops in the hood, police have discretionary power and in my opinion many use those powers to their advantage. …show more content…
As we read in Cops in the hood, most of the street level drug dealers are African American men. In conversation with an actual ex-police officer, he stated that “wearing a badge and having such police powers of arrest gave him a god like complex”, that he knew was dangerous not only for him but for others around him.. Needless to say he is no longer a cop but an Educator, trying to prevent kids from going down the wrong path where they may end up with negative consequences, such as death, jail or accidentally ( I say that loosely) killed by a police