Police Brutality

One would think with the consistent stories of police harassment or brutality that are pasted all over the headlines, that there must be a reason for the new influx of enraged officers. Could be they were part of the large and ever expanding population of abused children, or they could just be the school bully that never grew up. Although I have no doubt there are many schoolhouse rebels living their dreams in the precincts in your own town I still believe this is not the reasoning, actually I don't see that they aggression of police has increased whatsoever. I believe what we are seeing are more victims, criminal or not, having the chutzpa to tell their story and become the town martyr.

Back not many years ago when the common day folk were not so lawsuit happy or money hungry, police officers still used excessive force, they still made mistakes and followed their biased opinions to nasty unfair conclusions, but we didn't fight it. Or if for some reason we did fight, the story was squashed because of course officers have to be above reproach to help police the public. Rodney King was a large turning point in our culture showing that although your local law enforcement was there for protection they also could hinder or hurt you.

However now we have the everyday joe hiring an attorney for getting yelled at too harshly, and the local sneak thief suing the house he broke into for cutting his arm on the glass he broke while trying to slip in unnoticed. The tragedy of all of this, is not that the criminal tries to gain money through devious means, this happens daily. What is tragic is that in a court of law they win these cases! A family of four could end up paying thousands of dollars for medical bills to a deviant trying to steal their possessions. This is our law enforcement officers are ripped apart on your local headlines. We have slowly degraded our system to let the criminals win and our local heroes be tainted by the few bullies that unfortunately do have a badge when they don't even deserve a license.

Now I am not making excuses for police that allow a woman to hemorrhage on the side of the road because they believe she is lying to get out of a ticket. I would tie them up by their own toes and take away their badge if I had my way. However keep in mind while reading the headline tomorrow while sipping your morning coffee, that there might be a few police officers that shouldn't even be crossing guards, but there are also the everyday heroes. The men and women that gave their lives to save others on 9/11, and the officers that help the elderly across the street, or buy a young child an ice cream cone. These are the men and woman that need to be boasted upon, and stories written. Lock the other rotten mess in a room together and through away the key.