Police Brutality: How Much Force is Too Much

Police brutality is something that many people are worried by. The public trusts police officers to protect them and they don't want to have to be protected from their protectors. However it is hard to know what is and what isn't police brutality.

Police officers are trusted with the task of protecting and serving the community, this is not an easy job and there are many concerns associated with it. Being a cop is one of the few jobs that you worry about whether or not you will return home each day, and because of that fear police are sometimes to forceful with criminals. Only the officer who is making the arrest and is actually there can really tell if the person they are arresting is resisting or not and only they can use that information to determine the right amount of force to use.

Often when a criminal is injured during an arrest they blame the officer for being too violent, but just because someone gets a broken arm or a bloody nose doesn't necessarily mean the officer used too much force. In some cases almost no force is needed to apprehend a suspect and they are cooperative, but in some cases suspects run and try to evade police. After someone runs when they are caught more force is used because the officers know if they don't keep the suspect there they'll run again. Anytime a suspect tries to injure an officer or if they do injure an officer the officers will use much more force because they must be cautious to keep themselves from being injured. It must be very stressful to have to be dealing with the worst people society has to offer every day and then have people tell you you're doing your job wrong.