Video of Police Brutality/Misconduct
Ok...before I take any heat for posting this. I will say that I do not believe that the majority of police officers are bad/corrupt/crooked/criminals. The majority of them are good hearted people looking to make a difference in society and keep dangerous people off of the streets. Just as there are many videos of police officers abusing their authority, and in some instances committing crimes, there are of course just as many videos of everyday citizens who break the law and brutalize people.
The significance in the video I am posting is that we do hold police officers to a higher standard then the average citizen. It is one of the most hypocritical acts that a person commits if they break the very laws they are sworn to uphold. Under no circumstances do the "means justify the ends," ever. If an officer goes beyond his authority, even though he may be well intentioned, he is wrong one the less and should face the consequences of such. Police officers should be facing the same consequences that all other citizens are subjected to.
I am making no judgements from the evidence presented in these videos. We do not have all of the facts from each individual case, and it does mention that in some instances the officer was suspended, fired, or charged criminally.
I am going to make a quick two part analysis of the video however...
Analysis:
(a) Over recent years there has been a prevailing trend of increased police brutality, excessive force, and in some instances criminal behavior. The police force over recent years has become increasingly militarized and distances from the public. Where police once interacted with the public on a daily basis through foot patrols and other various interactions, that has ceased. Through various other media evidence, there seems to be a prevalent trend of "Us vs. them" where the police are made to suspect every citizen as a potential suspect. This has no doubt aided in the anomosity and disenfranchisement of the public as a whole.
(b) Another possibility to the aforementioned, is that increased technology is leading to a higher reporting of these incidences. The ability of average civilians to purchase high end audio/video recording devices via the internet and conceal them in an inconspicuous way. Additionally, the implementation of audio/video recording devices in everyday items such as the cellular telephone. This advance in technology coupled with webservers which host videos for millions of potential constituents to see, has no doubt contributed to otherwise unreported incidences of police misconduct being noticed. In many instances where police authority's failed to INITIALLY repremand an officer for wrong doing, once the video was made public, they were then forced to take action and justice was thus served.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9pnb...arechange.org/
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