Article Summary: A Few Bad Apples

A Few Bad Apples The United States of America has become a powerful country that honors freedom and courage. Our country has overcome racial discrimination, the freedom to vote despite gender, to speak freely, endured wars, economic strikes, technological advances and stockmarket plummits. However, America cannot be perfect, nor can any country be. It is up to the citizens of America to set a good example and push our country as close to perfect as we can. We can start by acknowledging our nation’s issues that are categorized as poverty, hunger, disease, corruption, ignorance of race and sexuality and police brutality. Police brutality is often overlooked, people see it as an act of cruelty performed by “a few bad apples” in the police department. Bonnie Kristian declares otherwise in her article “Seven
If anyone can put an end to police brutality, why is the problem still occuring? Terrell Starr gives us some insight in his article “Why Police Brutality Is So Hard to End—And What It Will Take to Stop It”. Starr argues that, “If police brutality were just a matter of a few bad apples, it would be a lot easier to solve. But it isn’t. Protecting bad cops is built into the fabric of police culture, and is a structural issue that has to be corrected with structural solutions.” Although police brutality may be a difficult issue to crush, we have noticed effort to end it throughout history. A well known effort was in 1992, the account of police misconduct on Rodney King sent a wave of riots through the streets of LA. Every citizen was protesting police brutality in respect to King. Today, we continue to make more efforts to end the problem by pushing laws to protect citizens from the “few bad apples”. Rt USA informs us that, “In 24 states, 40 new measures to change the way police interact with the public have been introduced since the Ferguson