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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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I think it's spot on with the last part of what you wrote, inexperience etc but there are other problems too. The most recent case being a police officer who bragged about killing people. He also was verbally aggressive in which he got a slap on the wrist with a years suspension. In fact that didn't even happen, he went to the gang unit so he's clearly still getting paid.

Most of the problem is that when there is brutality, police are usually given a slap on the wrist with "suspension." It has to draw international moral outrage before they actually fire someone. That's the issue here, the whole police integrity thing kind of starts with.. police.

I can see moral grey areas where the officer felt they had to defend themselves and don't always think it's a case of brutality but there are many cases pointing to corruption but police don't get held accountable and that bothers me.