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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Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

I think it's a very hard job, you're torn between not wanting to die and not wanting to kill somebody. There's also the stress and trauma factor, and the anxiety that goes with it always expecting the worst.

I think some people make bad judgements in stressful situations, some that have devestating consequences, and then some people are almost sociopathic in that they like the power and abuse it. That is rare though, outside of a few cops being a dick sometimes because they're having a bad day.

TakingBackMidgard · 31-35, M

Excellent statement! It’s been said that some officers refuse to patrol crime ridden neighborhoods or take specific calls because if the going gets tough they don’t want to take the possible action that will land them with a false bad reputation. @Ryannnnnn

Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

@TakingBackMidgard It's lose-lose a lot of the time for them. If somebody shoots a gun in a neighbourhood it's "where are the cops?" If they turn up and have to shoot the person it's "The cops showed up and shot my son". I wouldn't wanna bear the weight of that either.