5.27.15
Hundreds of years ago, we had kings and queens that ruled their nations' with ever growing, uncontrollable power; this often led to an abuse of power by authority which led to unhappy people that started to become uneasy. So today, instead of kings and queens, we have presidents, mayors, senators, etc... and a police force.
I'm so baffled by what is put in the news, how police officers are killing citizens that have done very little wrong. How an individual may be walking down a sidewalk, is spotted by a police officer, and runs in fear of being falsely accused of a crime. This raises the essential question, that everyone thinks about...shouldn't we be trusting our officers? the ones that have the power to throw us in jail or claim we're innocent and guilty.
I have such a fear of authority mainly because I have never been given a reason to trust the ones that hold power of me, I have never been treated fairly or as equal to a police officer which causes me so much frustration. I want to have trust in them, but they give me no reason too. So I decide to ignore them and try and not get caught by them.
When driving down the busy roads of New Paltz, I spot an officers car trying to makes its way into the overwhelming traffic that fills the towns streets. However, when that car is denied entry, I see its sirens start beeping and all the cars pull over and allow the police officer entry onto the road. That is an abuse of power. But who's going to stop them? No one is there to control the ones that hold all this power, and that's what the problem is. An abuse of power is sparked from ego. Police officers have such big egos that their power and authority over all citizens is over used and often, over abused. Please inform me, in a factual sense, why officers should be able to carry guns everyday and everywhere while there are restrictions on citizens even owning a gun, this brings about a whole new issue. I hate guns. Gun laws are weird and don't make much sense to me. How can one state make laws about not owning a gun, but other can..it definitely needs to be a universal law.
I mean I really don't blame officers for letting the power that they have go to their head, it would go to my head to but I mean, its definitely time to address the issue as its pretty pertinent to everyone no matter what society you are apart of.
It just makes me so angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to be president just so I can fix this f***ed up system which runs our world. Like the first law I would implement is that police officers carry rubber bullets, which initially do the same amount of damage, but in the end won't take the life of an innocent human....I feel like people would like that and would elect me based pretty much on that premise.
I have so much more to say about this but its kind of hard to have this conversation with myself, so if your interested, come up to me and ask me about it. Ill have some important shit to say.
I understand you child. one time my boyfriend pulled into a farmstands parking lot t make a phone call, and his lights on to assure he wasn't trying to do anything wrong. a police officer pulled up, flicked the lights on, accused us of trying to rob the farm stand, even though we there in the middle of the winter and they had been closed for months. we got no respects and were scolded for no apparent reason. the cop said "I expect to be seeing you again" crazy stuff
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100% maya. The police force should be there to protect us not intimidate us. citizens should not have to be afraid. there is definitely a hamartia in our society
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