Saturday, December 13, 2014

Is it really Protecting and Serving?

Police officers are responsible for the detection and prevention of many crimes. They are also suppose to maintain public order, not disturb it. Police men and women have taken oaths, to serve the citizens, support human rights, and present equal respect to all people. They swear to keep and preserve peace. How are they doing their jobs correctly if the citizens are uncomfortable and scared of the law? It has been shown throughout the media that many police officers abuse their power and have made repetitive harmful actions against citizens. While most of them are doing this, there are very few unique officers that do their jobs correctly and should be rewarded for their efforts. Popular cases such as: Sammy Yatim, Michael Brown, Josee Valiquette, and Robert Dziekanski show unplanned and poorly thought out actions that lead to their deaths, leaving broken-hearted familes and friends, and millions of people furious accusing police of police brutality and/or murderers. This just isn't right and it's not just the famous cases on the media, it is happening to many citizens. Some of them are even unarmed! Over the trials of all these cases, some are let go and dropped of charges, making the families even more angry because there was no justice being served. What we as the people of the government need to discuss with the police committee is that, there needs to be improved training and stronger consequences for mistakes and actions that are not well thought out. It is just unprofessional to not think over the situation and rather go out, guns blazing and taking the lives of other human beings who most likely, have loving families that cares for them. The reason why we need improved training is because we need more police officer's to think before doing. It would be beneficial to both citizens and the police force by training an officers reaction to different situations and what to make best out of it. We also need to have stronger consequences for the police officers who has taken the lives of another human being. It is never right to end someone's life and should not be encouraged.