Imagine a normal day, you are a New York City police officer. You are protecting the city that you love and trying to provide for your wife, your son in college and his 13 year old brother. You go to work like any other normal day and get to the station to meet up with your partner and begin your shift. Your day is seemingly normal and you and your partner decide to stop and observe a part of high crime neighborhood before your shift ended. You are sitting with your partner and unaware of the man walking up to the passenger side of your patrol car. You then see two bullets hit your partner's face and do not have time to draw your weapon before you too are no longer alive. You are remembered by the emotional words that your 13 year old gives
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This is caused mainly by public figures and celebrities through media. Beyoncé has been outspoken against police brutality in recent months, with the imagery of a police car slowly being submerged and the graffitied phrase "Stop Shooting Us" in her recent "Formation" music video. This embodies the problem of race and police in America. Instead of uniting people, celebrities such as Beyonce show images of drowning police cars and broad opinionated statements without real facts. In fact of the 990 people who were killed by police officers in 2015, the Washington Post reported 258 of them were black. So far in 2016, there have been 708 documented deaths in police shootings, 173 of which have resulted the deaths of African-Americans. Although there has been increased media attention surrounding the police killings of black people the statistics show quite the contrary. The war on police is not exclusively through physical altercations or the shooting of police but also through public opinion and the attack from the liberal media. In black communities the consensus about police is that they are bad. Yet in 2015 there were 765,000 sworn police officers, 54 were charged with unjustified shootings, 11 officers were convicted. The public can make statements such that police shoot people for no reason and that police are bad yet you need a calculator to find the exponential percentage of officers convicted for wrongful
This is caused mainly by public figures and celebrities through media. Beyoncé has been outspoken against police brutality in recent months, with the imagery of a police car slowly being submerged and the graffitied phrase "Stop Shooting Us" in her recent "Formation" music video. This embodies the problem of race and police in America. Instead of uniting people, celebrities such as Beyonce show images of drowning police cars and broad opinionated statements without real facts. In fact of the 990 people who were killed by police officers in 2015, the Washington Post reported 258 of them were black. So far in 2016, there have been 708 documented deaths in police shootings, 173 of which have resulted the deaths of African-Americans. Although there has been increased media attention surrounding the police killings of black people the statistics show quite the contrary. The war on police is not exclusively through physical altercations or the shooting of police but also through public opinion and the attack from the liberal media. In black communities the consensus about police is that they are bad. Yet in 2015 there were 765,000 sworn police officers, 54 were charged with unjustified shootings, 11 officers were convicted. The public can make statements such that police shoot people for no reason and that police are bad yet you need a calculator to find the exponential percentage of officers convicted for wrongful