Police Working Class Essay

In an article titled “The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People, Not ‘Serve and protect’’ by Sam Mitrani the editor states that police officers were never made to serve and protect the population. They were not made to stop crime or promote justice. Instead, Ms. Mitrani states that around the nineteenth century “police officers” were made to protect the new age of wage-labor from the so called threat of the working class. Then she continues on to give evidence of such cases but in the same sense “police officers” had a choice on where or not they wanted to hold such a title. The evolution and meaning of a police officer has changed since the 19th century. Society sees police officers as role models that serve and protect the community and its citizens. Along with that police prevent crime, maintain order and investigate crimes and apprehend criminals. I emphasize the “serve and protect the community and its citizens” especially citizens because in today’s society we are not protected by the men and women who we thought will protect us the most. Every time I turn to channel 7 or any news channel I see different person brutalized and just treated like they aren’t humans. They are treated as such by people we think will have at least the decency to treat us with some kind of respect, Police …show more content…
Handcuffed and booked that day. On July 13, 2015 she was found dead and they ruled it a “suicide”. Claiming that she was suicidal but she showed no signs of depression and other suicidal traits. Bland actually was against police brutality and twitted “AT FIRST THEY USED A NOOSE, NOW ALL THEY DO IS SHOOT.” So within days of her arrest she all of a sudden became suicidal and killed herself. The same women that told her mother, ‘Momma, now I know what my purpose is. My purpose is to go back to Texas. My purpose is to stop all social injustice in the South. '