African American Police Vs People

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Police Vs. People
Many people died from police shooting. According to Killed by police website, in 2013 seven hundred sixty eight people died, in 2014 around one thousand one hundred eight, and in 2015 around one thousand fifty one until now (“Killed”). On the other hand, according to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund website, around eighty-one the police died from people shooting last two years. However, there are many reasons for the shooting, and the police problems are increasing from to 2013 and 2014 (“Officers”). There are three reasons for the increased police problems: people do not stop for police, people and police lack trust and respect between each other, and police should not use gun for every situation.
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Whites are divided: 33% say the police have gone too far, 32% say the police response has been about right, while 35% offer no response” (“Stark”). This shows that “Whites also are nearly three times as likely as blacks to express at least a fair amount of confidence in the investigations into the shooting” (“Stark”). Many African American do not feel comfortable with police. Because police think, they always do something wrong and do not have any responsibility for anything. However, police cannot trust people now because they have a bad history with people. For example, in 2012 when police stop someone and they do not respect police, and police tell them to stay in their car. They then move from their car and do some acrobatic movements. Police tell them back to their car. After that, they start shot police. This happen on of reason police do not start trust people now. In addition, some people do not respect police, and they think they are bossing them. For instance, when people do something noisy and police come to ask them to be quite. Then, police are back to them after 10 minute. They talk with them again and give them final warning. Nevertheless, they still are noisy, police come back to them again with their partners to catch them, and they start to fight with police. Police will use Tasers to keep everything under control and catch them to court. Actually, police are human like people. When they do their job. It does not mean they hate people. They help people to live safe. Although police also respect people, except while they talk to them. They should honor people and explain what they do wrong and ask them do not do it again

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