1. Now before you get angry, no, I’m not saying the police never do anything wrong. There have been many incidents where the police were in the wrong, I understand.

2. I’m talking about the police in the United States of America. I would be out of my mind if I were to say the police in some smaller, “failed state” type countries were portrayed unfairly, as they are usually payed off very easily.

Now before I start, I want to make it clear that I am not in any police department, affiliated with any police department, or know anyone who is in any police department. I am basing my opinion solely off of looking at individual incidents that happen both in my city and across the country. I know at this point you have probably stopped reading this part of the post, but if you haven’t, please keep reading.

I think the police get a very bad rep due to many news channels and people online being too quick to assume. The news isn’t gonna have stories about cops being normal cops, because there’s no news in that. It’s not the norm for cops to be horrible, and people who think we should get rid of the police are just completely uneducated.

EDIT: I have not changed my opinion on the matter completely, however, I now will look at the issue with the perspective that there is bias coming from both points of view.