Essay: Should Police Officers Be Attacked By Police?

Unfortunately, there is noticeably little evidence of law enforcement officers being assaulted by citizens. This is because the media chooses not to report on such events. Little is known about these events because--related to assaults on suspects--reports are submitted voluntarily and not all departments participate. Although the rates at which law enforcement officers are fatally injured is slowly diminishing, it still remains a problem in society today. According to Tasha Tsiaperas, “twenty officers were killed in multiple-shooting death incidents which tied 1971 for the most killed in such incidents since 1932” (1). Even though officers are not being fatally injured as often, they are still being assaulted at an increasing rate. Officer injuries are growing a slow rate, but are still becoming more and more common in the United States.
Numerous people are aware of the 2016 Dallas Attack. In this incident, five police officers were fatally injured due to citizens assaulting them. The citizens were protesting in a hazardous way. The law enforcement officers were …show more content…
This statement is no different when it comes to police brutality. The media often portrays law enforcement officers as cruel and racist people by only reporting the events in which an officer treats a suspect with cruel and unusual punishment. With this being said, the media has been promoting the “hate campaign” against police officers since as early as 2009 (Morelli 1). Not only does the press only write over certain events, but they also tend to over dramatize these events. It is also shown that, more times than not, a journalist will only interview people with the same opinions as them. Major journalists also tend to not interview any type of personnel in the law enforcement. This is considered a problem because these major media sources play a significant role in how citizens form their opinions over