Police Brutality In The Book Trash

“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.” ~Benjamin Spock. Discrimination and idolization of Law Enforcement is an unseen threat in society today. The Law Enforcement shown in the book Trash is a good representation of what happens in our society. Many people don’t notice it, because they aren’t the target. People of minorities, poor people, and women are usually the target of the stories you hear on the news. Law Enforcement is idolized for what they do, but they are idolized by the people who don’t get the worst of it. There are good Policemen and Policewomen, of course, but there is white privilege that is seen during different Law Enforcement actions. Idolization is real, and society discriminates its people absentmindedly. …show more content…
Police brutality happens a lot, and it happens mostly to people who are not white. Men and women in Law Enforcement are idolized, because they are of higher “status” than everyone else around them. What people don’t notice is that people make mistakes. Mistakes that are huge, and sometimes they’re not even mistakes. Most times police brutality is simply too coincidental to be a simple “mistake”. There are many stories about white police officers shooting unarmed and innocent people, and not being indicted correctly. Law Enforcement has brainwashed its people to believe that it is always right in everything it does, when this is not true. The mistakes that police men and women make cost many innocent lives. There is no justice for taking a life; you cannot pay someone back for taking their loved one from them. The expression “Fight fire with fire” indicates that someone had set a fire in the first place. The subject of police brutality is hard and real, and is not put to justice