Effects Of Police Shootings

Tensions between law enforcement and the general public have never been higher. Police shootings occur more and more often. People’s lives get changed the family of the victim and police officers families with each incident that happens. Some people blame the cop as an individual police officer from all of the police shootings that have occurred over the past few years. But sometimes you have to look at the big picture behind all of these police shootings, the police officers were at these locations for a particular reason.

Just in 2016 alone, The U.S. saw 135 police officers died in the line of duty in 2016, which is the highest number of fatalities on the job in five years, according to statistics. This year the number is 957 people, this is slightly from the 991 people killed by police in 2015, but it is still a very large number. This unnecessary loss of live is unacceptable and must be delt with immediately before any further damage can be done to the families of the police officers and the families of the victim of these police shootings. This problem can solved by using a method called community policing to reduce crime and make the community safer. …show more content…
This will create a connection within the community making the police and general public safer. The officers will get to know the people that they patrol around every day thus making the community feel like they actually know the police officer and the public will feel more comfortable to give the police information about crimes that were committed in the community.

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