Why Has the Animosity Toward the Police Reached Such a Volatile Point in our History? (Essay Sample)

War on Cops
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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. 2. Has the press been negligent in presenting an unbiased view of policing and their efforts to confront crime and as a result is the appearance of the “Ferguson Effect” a result of that?