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American Police Need A Change

Our entire country's police force needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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More people have been shot and killed by the police, recorded and people continue to question those that died, rather then those who did the killing. At no point has this ever been okay nor will it ever be okay, but we will go silent because it's not our family. It's not our lives. We just mind our business. Something that is only adding fuel to the fire, when we can stand up and demand Colin Kaepernick to obey and pledge allegiance to a flag and country that won't do the same for him. He is in a country where he will be shot at and the officer won't even have an explanation past "I don't know." Don't believe me? That happened in North Miami, July 2016. Then they will do damage control to say they meant to shoot an Autistic man.

Also of July 2016, New Zealand police had shot 22 people in the last DECADE, nine of them were killed. That's it. In a decade. I have a friend in New Zealand and I always wonder what their country does so much differently. I want that peace, I want that peace of mind, and I would love to see what it's like to not be afraid of the police when they are around. I would like the police to not stand there with their hand on their gun, ready to whip it out at any time.

America wants so badly to believe we are the best country in the world. We need to believe we have the freedoms that no one else does. Which we don't. Other countries have freedoms like we do, the only things they limit are the things that result in chaos. America enjoys all of our chaos though. In some countries police don't generally even carry guns.

I feel police officers should have psychological tests every six months, taught to shoot at a body part that they won't die instantly and have strict consequences if protocol isn't followed. Not to mention they should have a college education. Having a job that requires as much responsibility as a being a police officer requires, it needs to be more than a walk in and walk out, here's your gun! Type deal... A college education has also shown in studies to make a huge difference. Knowledge truly is power.

Do not confuse what I'm saying I am not anti-guns. I am against unnecessary deaths or making sure injuries that can be avoided should be. We have to look around and open our eyes instead of blaming Obama. We need to accept responsibility in all of this and this has been around years prior. This "race war" most people feel has just begun, has been felt for years but nobody has listened. We don't want to listen but we claim we want solutions. Police brutality isn't new, and we have all seen someone in authority abuse their position regardless of what job they have.

America we have to do better if you want Black Lives Matter to "go away", you need to stop treating the Law above the Law. A badge doesn't excuse you from killing people because they sneezed and you told them not to. Once the officers that shoot people for ridiculous things and walk free, then your problems will be solved. Then we will go back to focusing on the racists we deal with day to day. Rather then a justice system rigged to protect those it wants to.

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