WAR ON COPS

WAR ON COPS

1. Why has the animosity toward the police reached such a volatile point in our history?

The animosity towards the police has been intensified by the belief that the police are the principal cause of the homicides in society. People have a notion that the police practice racial discrimination in the execution of their duties to society. According to Heather Mac Donald such movements as Black Lives Matter, has dramatically heightened the perception of the society towards police by claiming that they are the primary threats to young black men (Mac Donald, 2017). The brutality and killing of the black criminals by the police, according to Heather, is termed as racial discrimination of the black, which is not the case. The course has thus advanced the animosity existing in the society towards the policing department while the reality is that the black is involved in crime at a high rate within the society. She argues that the black at the age of 40 commit homicides amongst the fellow blacks, which is blamed on police. She adds that no security agency has been in its position to fight crime and to maintain law and order like the police. The leading cause is, therefore, the increased crime in the society which has led to punishment to the black who are the principal criminals and the protest movements continually feeding people with wrong information angst police.

The press has contributed significantly to unbiased information on policing department. Heather Mac Donald argues that the instance has much-fed people with information that is not true and has dramatically tarnished the image of the police in society (Mac Donald, 2017). She argues that the society is not readily determined or dig deep the cause of the increased killings of the black but instead they blame it on police while they strive to maintain order in the society. Research, according to Heather Mac Donald’s, shows that black men are the primary reasons for the increased crime of murder in society but not the police. However, the press has continually given views against police on the increased cases of homicides without having reliable information about the same. Heather says the police shooting is not due to discriminatory reasons, but they do it in their effort to curb criminal activities which the black men engage in the society. She says the shooting has been evidenced due to criminal resisting arrests, and at the same time armed criminals causing chaos. The aforementioned therefore shows that the press has been giving unbiased claims against the police, especially in the scene of effort to confront the crime of the “Fergusson effect”.
3. What information were you unaware of or surprised that Ms MacDonald presented?

The information that I was surprised to be that the primary victims of the increased homicides in the society are the same black men that the press argues that they are discriminated against by the police officers. I was not expecting at any point a mention that the crime rate is increasing in the society and is more on blacks than it is among the whites and the rest of the races in the American people. Moreover, I was not aware that the press could be giving biased information against the police for all this period in the history of the policing department in the United States.

It was unbelievable that the black is not discriminated upon their colour, but instead, they are primary blame to the homicides happening within the community. It was great to be part of the speech by Heather as she made it clear and justified her point through statistics taken from society. She revealed the fact that the society does not spare their time to see the effort the policing department is making to maintain law and order is a significant reason for the compromised information spread against them.

Reference

Mac Donald, H. (2017). The war on cops: How the new attack on law and order makes everyone

less safe. Encounter Books.