Summary Of Christina Rakovitis An Open Letter To The Police Force

Title In 2013 the Black Lives Matter movement started after a White-Hispanic police officer shot and killed an unarmed African-American teenager and was acquitted of second-degree murder. Since that time, the majority of news shown in America involves White police officers and their brutalities against minorities, specifically African-Americans. In 2015, with faith in police still at an all-time low, Christina Rakovitis writes An Open Letter to the Police Force, published on The Odyssey online. In her letter she reaches her target audience of not just police (good and bad) but firefighters, first responders, and military personnel. She also addresses people who see one video of a police officer abusing their power and believe all men and women

Tasks they do not have to do and tasks she could not fathom doing herself. She is very appreciative, compassionate, and understanding, and at the very end of her “Thank yous”, she very subtly addresses those officers that have abused their power. She respectfully says to them “you will never be above the law” (Rakovitis, para 1). She gravitates from thanking officers to apologizing to them. Apologizing for all the criticism, lack of appreciation, News and social media making them look like degrading people, and hatred in general. She apologizes for the fear they have to do their own jobs. She is sincere in these apologies, while, hopefully, opening the eyes of the small minded people to the fact that police have families of their own. They make mistakes. They are

She discusses a video from the position of a White-Hispanic, female police officer, named Lydia. Unlike most videos that go viral involving police, Lydia talks about how a scarce amount of power abusing cops should not ruin the reputation of all police forces around the country. She reiterates that she is human, she has a family of her own, and her life is worth protecting just as much as the lives she protects. Along with Lydia, Rakovitis briefly mentions a former US Marine that went viral for condemning the Black Lives Matter movement and promoting All Lives Matter movement. She does not give much more detail about the Marine or his story, but this is significant for Rakovitis’ letter because police brutality is not a race issue. There are just as many reports where a victim of police injustice and the officer are both Caucasian, and never make it to the news stations. Police brutality is about the misuse of power. Rakovitis wants to make that apparent, as well as, shine some light on the inaccuracy of social media and television. This inconsiderate thinking has led to direct consequences of more violence and