Police brutality is an issue that cannot be avoided in today’s society. With the ever-rising ‘threat’ of police officers, more and more people are creating ways to avoid police brutality and what individuals can do to stop it. Americans complain about having too many laws and that the government system should be reformed. This is part of the problem. People who are uneducated in politics do not understand why politicians make certain decisions. Sometimes people have no one to blame for their struggles, so it must be the governments fault. Sadly, Americans are always willing to point the finger at others and never at themselves. The other part of the problem is how the media portrays police brutality. The media is all too quick to take one thing, …show more content…
A picture on Facebook describes it perfectly. One man is running away from another man trying to stab him. However, the camera man filming manages to switch the roles of the two men and capture the running man stabbing and the stabbing man as the victim. The author of the book, The Politics of Force, discusses how the media inflates crime and ‘wars’ on crime to something that it necessarily is not. As my mother has said more than once, “All you ever hear about in the news, is things that are wrong. You never hear about the good things.” The author, Regina G. Lawrence, also mentions that even though police brutality is a controversial topic, it is still a problem that needs to be solved. Lawrence suggests that a line is difficult to draw because police force is always ambiguous. The author also states that the word brutality should not be used, considering that police brutality is defined as: “a conscious and venal act by officers who usually take great pains to conceal their misconduct.” (pg. 19) She then states that there are many reasons why we have police brutality and why people care so much about it. A problem with multiple parts, calls for a solution with multiple …show more content…
Americans should be better educated in what the police are supposed to handle different situations. Society should also have a better understanding of the statistics the media gives us as not all statistics are true. Another part of the solution includes creating restricting laws on the media. Including laws about how and when they can release information, video, and footage. Society has seen images and video via the press that were not supposed to be released. This causes miscommunication, a wrongful education of what happened, and allows people to formulate their own opinions. Sadly no matter how hard people look for a solution, there will never be one which makes everyone happy. There will never be a perfect solution. People will always be unhappy with the way government is conducted and there will always be a victim of police brutality; whether it is African Americans, Latinos, or any other race or religion. In a world covered by sin, this will always be true. However, there are ways of slowly transforming the touchy topic. We can only begin to seek to redeem police brutality through seeing the world through the eyes of our