Do you think police in the United States are too violent and are using excessive force? If you don’t then hear this. According to newsweek.com police killed more than 1,000 people in 2017.
Police are using excessive force and they should be held accountable.A Lot of police have gotten away for misconduct behavior and active force. Police are putting themselves and others people in danger. Last year more than 900 were killed by police last year.The exact number is 978 people. That is 2 dozen more than last year.
One of them was a 72 year old lady named Ms. Knowlton who lived in Punta Gorda FL was accidentally shot while doing a shot/don’t shoot role play practice. Most people understand that the day-to-day job of a police officer is full of dangers. Nearly every day, we see news stories of another police officer somewhere in the United States who is hurt or killed.
We know there are bad people out there who are willing to hurt other people and officers are the one who gets harmed. But if police did not come in an aggressive way they wouldn’t get hurt. So this means police are hurting himself and other people by having guns Police can lose their job for using too much force.An ex police officer had to give up his job because he lied in a police report. “‘Honestly I was glad the officer got fired so he won’t be able to do this to anyone else. I’m just happy to get him off the streets,’ Hubbard told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday.””There are, of course, police officers who are fired for misbehavior by commanding officers who decide that a given abuse makes them unfit for a badge and gun.
Yet all over the U.S., police unions help many of those cops to get their jobs back, often via secretive appeals geared to protect labor rights rather than public safety. Cops deemed unqualified by their own bosses are put back on the streets.
Their colleagues get the message that police all but impervious to termination.””Since 2006, the nation’s largest police departments have fired at least 1,881 officers for misconduct that betrayed the public’s trust, from on overtime to unjustified shootings. But The Washington Post has found that departments have been forced to reinstate more than 450 officers after appeals required by union contracts.”if police did not have guns these would not of happened because they would not know what punishments they would get or they would not know that they would get away with what they did. They would be more cautious of what they do. America is the most place people are killed by police, and police are targeting black african american people.
This is a really shocking fact.In England and Wales 55 people where shot by police and in America 59 people are killed in 24 day in 2015 not years but days. The number is just growing. In Germany 15 people from all race were killed by police in 2 years but in the U.S 19 unarmed black men were killed by police in five smonths.Last month, hours after a jury acquitted former police officer Jeronimo Yanez of manslaughter in the shooting death of 32-year-old Philando Castile, protesters in St.
Paul, Minnesota, shutdown Interstate 94. With signs that read: “Black Lives Matter” and “No Justice, No Peace,” the chant of “Philando, Philando” rang out as they marched down the highway in the dark of night.America is a very intelligent country and have no excuse for letting innocent human get killed by police.