Daija Germain

Honors Eng.12
1/15/2015

A Modest Proposal:

Imagine, every time you step outside a police officer has a gun pointed to your head
because your lipstick was a little too red and resembled blood or your pants looked a little too
low as if to hint at the fact that you partake in gang violence when all you wanted to do was go
to school or work. Imagine you have to tell the police freeze or else they might just attack
unless youre able to approach them with calming words and coax the gun out their hand. A
world where walking down the street with a cup of coffee in one hand and a bagel in the other
looks a little suspect so youre shoved on to the rough cement face down and beaten just for the
men in uniform to realize you were unarmed, water hosed to the side of a wall and blinded by
tear gas for no reason that youre aware of.

Police officers should have a tracker placed within their arms, a camera on them at all
times, and an earpiece, this way they are thoroughly under surveillance and if necessary they
can be indicted. Through the earpiece a group of well trained people should direct a police
officer what to do from a control room this way if anything off the wall happens the only one to
blame is the person behind the gun. All directions from the control room will be created in a way
to prevent death and bloodshed. If they fail to comply with the directions given to them, then
their partner will be forced to murder them, execution style.
Previously out of 179 fatalities involving men in uniform only 3 of them were indicted and
only one was convicted. The fact that police officers will be watched ALL THE TIME will reduce
the act of recklessness and remove the bubble of power that boosts many officers ego.

In the era of the "Uprising" in L.A police brutality was off the charts from killing and
beating mainly Blacks and Latinas in the middle of highways, roads, stores to plowing through
homes oblivious to the innocent lives that may or may not reside in the home they just
demolished. Dr. Dre said "not all cops are bad just 90% of em" which says that at the time well
being was no longer a factor, power and hatred ran the police force.

If a civilian were to shoot and kill a police officer who was conducting illegal activity such
as abusing the civilians family as well as the civilian himself I guarantee the civilian would be in
jail for 20 years, but for some reason when the tables are flipped and an innocent life is taken
away the man in uniform get a pass and a paycheck. For some strange reason police gain so
much slack in the legal world to the point where It's as if they do no wrong.

If we as a society sat back and allowed power to swell up the heads of those in the
police force then we are willingly giving up our own freedom. A world where the importance of a
life is no longer important is one I wouldn't want to live in. A life is a life end of story. To watch
police who can't handle everything that comes with their title, murder people in cold blood just
because "it seemed right" is repulsing and something has to be done.

Police have allowed their badge to spark some sort of irrational thinking within them.We
as people need to control them and train them in order to maintain our own voice and power. In
essence the force is creating their own society and attempting to be the head don or ring
leaders,but some of them, not all, lose sight in what is truly wrong and right. We need to gather
together and teach the officers a lesson. Growing up I was taught to treat others the way they
treat me so if the police would like to be stripped of their freedoms, beaten and battered, taken

from their families for life, removed from their homes then by all means let them continue this
madness. Either their freedom is restricted or it's our freedom, period.