Police our protecting the People by Killing those People

The blog piece I will speak about comes from the Dallas Morning News an opinion piece written by Tod Robberson on October 14, 2014 which he titles it “In black and white: New study shows racialskew in police use of lethal force.”

In this piece Robberson focuses on the actions called by American policemen with the decisions that have left death being the main choice to how to correctly respond to potential assault. The article begins with some public events that have been happening in the states like the Ferguson tragedy and the Wal-Mart accident, showing that not all that were killed were attacking our policemen. Then the article moves on to provide some the statistics provided by ProPublica. Just to share a bit of the research it showed there has been 1,217 fatal police shootings between 2010 and 2012, the ages between 15 and 19 were killed that were black. Rate showed 31.17 per million compared to the white race which was 1.47 per million. Not all officers were white some black officers. I believe that audience that Robberson is wanted to reach is mainly blacks not just teens but the parents of those teens, and not just blacks but some our other minorities. In the article I think another audience he also like catch attention of is the policemen and how their represented, being that this is officers of any race doing numbers in the murder rates. When reading the article you can say it is well articulated, research has been done and it provides plentiful information for the readers. I believe that as he targets his audiences, that the solution provided is meant to be an eye opener as well as a motivation for the readers. It was suggested that United States should review the training for our police force. Personally in school I was taught that Police are meant to serve and protect you as an American. However in reality it has shown otherwise because even if you run being in such situation, showing your back which shows no threat you can be shot, and more than once until you’re dead. The statics aligned with personal experience, and tragic stories can put truth into you knowledge.  

Towards the end of the article he shares a story of personal experience of an Afghan story that could have easily in our state turned into another murder but it was easily settled by quick thinking with a better ending. This article I believe grabs your full attention and also makes you think why it should be legal to kill because you have on the badge to do so, then having leading thoughts to if they are protecting us then who will protect us from them. The article in my opinion is informative and if you have time I recommend to go read it no matter what of ethnicity background.