Why Is Law Enforcement Bad

I think that recently law enforcement has been hindered by the newsworthy events. It seems to me that almost every night I can turn on the “World News” and see a story that often involves law enforcement portrayed as the “bad guy”. This is too bad because law enforcement officers do a lot of good acts for the public each and every day. It seems to me that law enforcement officers do thousands of good acts for every one time that some officers have a slip up and the law enforcement field is being criticized on those one time slip ups. This is unfair because law enforcement officers are normal people too and make mistakes like the rest of us, however they are often held to a higher standard and therefore scrutinized much more fiercely than us …show more content…
Instead, a police car rapidly pulled up on snow-covered grass near a gazebo in the park, two officers got out, and one of them was afraid, according to his defenders, that the boy would fire. This fear drove the officer to “eliminate the threat” as he was trained and shot 12 year old Tamir, the boy died the next day. This story demonstrates a negative attitude toward law enforcement and pictures them as killing an “innocent little boy”. This next newsworthy story also portrays law enforcement in a negative way. On the night of February 26, 2012 Trayvon Martin walked into a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida, and bought a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona iced tea. Wearing his hood over his head he walked to the counter and paid the clerk and left, this was the last video surveillance of the 17 year old. Upon walking home officer Zimmerman, patrolling the Sanford, Florida streets, noticed Trayvon and reported to dispatch that he noticed a person appearing to be "A real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining, and he's just walking