Arguments Against Police Brutality

Police Brutality: A Rising Issue What should society do when the people that are supposed to be protecting them turn into the people that they need protecting from? Police brutality has become a major issue in today's society and has become a major point within today’s media. As stated by Lauren Fox, “The deaths of black men at the hands of police have been thrust into the national spotlight” (Fox). Police brutality is classified as an officer applying excessive and/or unneeded force to the innocent for no apparent reason. Through police brutality many innocent people have died and lots have not gotten the justice that the truly deserved. Police brutality has torn families apart and left them with a wound that they are unable to fix.With
In order to help reduce this issue there needs to be more police oversight and a clearer line drawn for the police officers between protecting themselves and causing harm to the innocent, and more tests and training to determine if the police officers have enough mental stability to be deemed stable enough to posses a gun. If the issue of police brutality is not properly and carefully solved to make people on both sides of the situation content and taken care of there is going to become a massive rift between the citizens and those who are paid to protect the people. People are slowly starting to lose the trust they put in these people. The people of these towns put there lives into the hands of these officers so they need to fill all of the expectations and make sure to keep as many people safe as possible. This issue needs to be taken care of before to much more damage is caused. If society takes too long this issue may ultimately lead a large amount of destruction that could have been prevented. If society can not trust the people that are there to protect us the who should be trusted? The people need to stand up to change the amount of power that the law enforcement holds before it is too