Pros And Cons Of Police Brutality

Unity our Strength, Ignorance our Foe, Knowledge our Power.

Within the past few years, there has been a spike in the amount of reported instances of Police brutality. The same officers that have been commissioned to serve and protect, are instead withholding rights and assaulting the public. We are collectively witnessing a resurgence in the amount of Police related fatalities of - in most cases - unarmed people. Many of which are murdered by way of negligence, ignorance, lack of training, aggression or hate. Never, since Rodney King has there been such a push for Police conduct reformation, and for good reason too; Police brutality is beginning to cause tension between those in and out of those vests. Although there are still an overwhelmingly
Locke stated that if government fails to protect rights, then the people have the right to overthrow the government and set up a new one; where this movement differs is the use of non-violent revolution. Fundamental rights are given to all men or, citizens, and cannot be taken away; these are inalienable rights. These same rights are to be cherished and respected by people and government alike. John Locke’s ideas most went beyond alienable rights and went as far as revolting even for things like poor living conditions. Seeing Is that he as an eyewitness of the English civil war- which was by no stretch of the imagination a peaceful revolution - it is safe to assume that as an Englishman, John Locke’s ideas of revolution were very bloody, and as an Enlightenment thinker, he would most likely gravitate to the ideas which deviated from - at the time - societal norms. The peaceful revolts that this paper deals with is concerned with using violence only if inalienable rights are threatened and stresses the importance of only using violence, which can quickly lead to death, as a last resort. In any case, initiating change by way of political activism, rallying support and spreading ideas, has proven to be some of the best ways to create change within a community, or even the world. Revolt in this sense is not one that is no different than war with a noble cause, it is a series of political, mental and ethical battles that must be fought in order to eschew from needless death as well as holding onto civility, a concept which Thomas Hobbes took to the extreme. Hobbes believed that revolts should never be initiated by the public for the sake of peace. Hobbes believed that although the cost of peace was high, as a society, it is our collective duty to sell our rights for it. Hobbes, much like Locke was also influenced by the English civil war, but in a completely different way, opting for social conformity as