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Laquan Mcdonald's Murder Essay

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On October 20, 2014, LaQuan Mcdonald was shot 16 times by law enforcement after being seen holding a knife. Although he was carrying a knife, video evidence showed that McDonald was in no way posing a threat to the responding officers. After the murder, the McDonald family revealed that LaQuan suffered from PTSD and complex mental health problems. However, there is no education for police officers on how to respond to people with disabilities or injuries. I am not justifying the murder of LaQuan McDonald, but I am trying to justify why defunding the police will only hurt our society more with the few requirements needed to become an officer. The movement should target what police stations spend their money on rather than taking away their funds …show more content…

This caused more crime to go unsolved which forced officers to work lengthy amounts of overtime (Weichselbaum and Lewis). Allowing this to continue will only cause more and more officers to quit because of the hard work they are putting in with very little pay to show. Working overtime is an extra role to take on if you need the money or have the time. Being forced to work should never be the case for any job, especially for the men and women that try their best to keep us and the people around us safe. Defunding the police and using that money for any other matter is and will always be the wrong choice. With the scarce amount of money left for the police if defunding did take place, the pay would have to go down along with the requirements necessary to become an officer as training would drain too much money. With the pay being so low, cops would not take the risks necessary to provide for the society they are entrusted to protect. With the requirements going down as well, low income families would be more willing to take the job just to provide for their own family. Being able to call yourself a police officer has slowly lost its value as more corrupt cops are shown than good. The media wants you to see everything from their perspective, not your own. To do so, they take the bad out of the good and the good out of the bad and manipulate the viewers with their tricks. This tactic has led to the downfall of law enforcement and will continue to do so unless someone or something puts an end to

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