What are your thoughts on Police Brutality?

Is police brutality an actual problem or are we just over using a few cases of unprofessionalism and making them out to be worse than they were?

Even to this day we over play cases like Mike Brown in Ferguson just to find out he was guilty?

However we don’t hear much anymore about the Daniel Shaver case.

I come from a family with deep history in the Police and military. Before my Step Father was an officer / Detective he was in the US Rangers (75th Regiment) he believes a lot of men and women with military service especially combat do extremely well as officer in intense situations and can defuse the scenario before it gets deadly.

It seems a lot of kids get out of high school and want to be officers but when it comes to a tough situation especially dealing in violence they’re more prone to using deadly force.

What are your thoughts? Discuss and be civil.

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BlueVeins · 22-25 Best Comment

While all police brutality is bad, I haven't really seen evidence suggesting that the scale of politce brutality is particularly large. What bothers me far more is... the fact that perpetrators of police violence have a tendency to get off without charges. If you shoot an unarmed person who wasn't attacking you, then your badge shouldn't save you from jail time. We should expect more from the people we trust to uphold law and order, not less.

TakingBackMidgard · 31-35, M

Excellent point. When Cara like these arise I’m curious does it come down to the politics if the town getting involved? Or is it some other form of corruption. @BlueVeins

BlueVeins · 22-25

@TakingBackMidgard Oh, it's a lot of things. It's politics as you say, with judges maybe having become a little too friendly with the police. It's the kind of bias that takes place in a court case between police officers, who have a generally respectable reputation, and impoverished (often black) people, who are disproportionately involved in crime and often just not well put-together. It's very shady.