All Police are Bad

All Police are Bad

Before you jump at the chance to clobber me with words, read my blog post.

Many of you won't get what I'm saying no matter how I explain my reasoning! Does the idea of blaming all police officers for the lawlessness of a few seem far-fetched to you? If you've answered 'No' to this question, you're in the minority! If you've answered 'Yes' to this question, you're a part of thousands of Americans who understand that some does not, in fact, mean all!

In 2011, my daughter (an African American) experienced a traumatic event involving Chicago, Illinois police. She was on her way home from work (Where she worked in an office on campus) and sitting at a bus stop downtown in the loop area. All of a sudden about five police officers approached her and started asking her a bunch of questions. She called me just sobbing away. My heart broke for her! Another African American, a man, was brought up to her and asked if she was the one who robbed him of his wallet. HE SAID YES! Then the one male officer told her to stand up and turn around and put her hands behind her. But all of a sudden when she started crying her eyes out, he kept staring at her as if he wasn't sure! That's when the female cops told my daughter not to cry - and that everything is alright or something along those lines! My daughter was patravide and wounded for good! They let her go but the mean male officer asked her why was she still sitting at the bus stop - Ugh!!!!

There was another incident involving Chicago police but this time both my daughter and myself where there. We were in the loop walking up Lake Street and I had my rolling bag (that kept turning on its side from time-to-time). My daughter was ahead of me when I started to cross on a green light within the crosswalk when all of a sudden a limo driver pulled up in the left turn lane on the right side of me. Well, my rolling bag decided it was going to give out on me just at that precise moment! That guy had a fit and hit my bag. And with his window down, he told me to hurry up! My daughter became outraged that someone would dare assault her mom. So she kicked his bumper! He jumped out of his car (a really big man) and went after my small sized daughter. He was enragged. He grabbed her and shoved her against a wall and said stay right there because he was calling the police on her. I have never been so scared in my life. I tried to get her to leave and run and get the heck out of there because I knew the police were going to take his word over ours (here in Chicago that's the way things are)! Yeah, the limo driver was Caucasian! 

Finally she broke loose from his grip and runs away with me to the bus stop. Well wouldn't you know it, the evil man still called the police who pulled up to the bus stop and questioned my daughter by asking her why she kicked the man's limo. They looked at the limo and didn't see any damage but told her that if they did see any damage they'd arrest her! WHAT???? Can you believe that!!! I'd lost my trust in police officers after that! I never call them or look at them. 

Then something dawned on me and I remembered something. I remembered, "The lady police officers who were nice to my daughter in 2011!" I knew then, in my heart-of-hearts, that I couldn't say all police officers are bad! As a matter of fact, I knew that if I ever needed one because someone was trying to harm me, I was 100 percent sure the police would protect me! 

Thus, I reached a conclusion about all this business of hating the police and stating that they all are bad, and decided that I can't get with that! Unfortunately though, I (we) still have to deal with many (Not all) bad officers out in the public who are making it bad for the good ones! Sadly, this is the world we're living in today. 

By Catherine Davis
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