5 Things You Should Know About Policing In America

Bringing it all Together

Looking at these statistics and facts, one must ask what it all means. The answer, like justice, is complicated. In general, things are better than the media is portraying. The trend is that policing is becoming safer. Force is used much less often than most believe. People generally due respect and have confidence in their police.

With this in mind, we still have issues. Bias, while not everywhere, still exists in policing. Harmful practices such as civil asset forfeiture and the “war on drugs” still continue. While the vast majority of cops are good people, some bad ones still escape punishment.

Police are not perfect. They never will be; they’re human just like everyone else. In our search to improve our justice system, we cannot fail to hold those who betray their duty to account. We cannot stop working to make our system better anywhere we can. Most importantly however, we cannot forget the men and women in blue who are out there everyday trying to make it all work.