Today, the
United States is the center of the world and its economy has improved and grown
two percent of the GDP for this year. The growing rate is very high in the
world. Looking at this side, the United States is seems to be the perfect
country. However, there are many social problems in its country. One of them is
the fact that American society seems to be strange in terms of the justice. This
is very important, because the decision of justice should be evident. In the
US, the gun politics establish itself. In other words, public people have guns
generally and they protect their life themselves. This style is apparently
secure for people, but because of this style, the police officers can shoot
people too easily by using self-defense as excuse. In my opinion, the human
right of the police officer in the US is protected too much, so the society
seems to fall into the strange justice society. There are three points to
support my opinion. First, the number of deaths from police shootings is very
many. Second, compared with other developed countries, the US is exceptional
case. Finally, there is a problematic case in the US about this topic.
First, American police shoot a great deal of people to death. I find
out an important website about it. (http://killedbypolice.net
) This site shows the list of deaths killed by police this year and their
Facebook account and its news site, too. According to this site, as of 6 July,
580 people were killed by the police officers in the US. The figure is for the
first half of the year, so annually in total the number of deaths will be over
1000. This is very many. From this, it is the fact that three people every day
are killed by police. We should face this serious problem.
Second, the
US is the exceptional case in the world, compared with other developed countries.
This graph shows the number of deaths from police shootings last
year in some developed
countries. According to this graph, in japan and UK, no one is
killed by the police and in Germany, only eight people are killed by the police
last year, but in the US on the other hand, no less than 409 people are killed
by the police last year. This figure is too many. From this comparison, we can
find the American justice strange.
Finally,
there is a problematic case in the US. On 29 November 2012, two black persons
violated traffic regulations in Cleveland and their wrongdoing was seen by the
police, so they got away on their car. Then the police officers chased them and
when the two people escaped for137 kilometers they pull over the nearby junior
high school. Then the police officers chasing them fired no less than 137 shots
into the car, although they did not resist with force and did not have guns. The
two persons, Malissa Williamas and Timothy Russell, were shot 23 and 24 times
respectively.
(http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/23/cleveland-officer-not-guilty-shot-137-times-police
)
This is the front windshield of the car shot by
the police. One of the police officer, Brelo, stood on the hood of a car and
fired his gun 49 times through the windshield at two unarmed passengers on that
day. This is merciless, unbelievable. There were clearly unnecessary shots. It
would not be surprised that he is accused of the murder. However, Brelo was found
not guilty on two counts of voluntary manslaughter. The judge said this is
beyond reasonable doubt. This case indicates you that the human rights of the
police are protected too much so the police too easily point the gun at people.
What is worse, the killed two persons are black, so this case raised the racial
discrimination problem. Some people argue that the decision of the court is to
segregate black people. It led to the public demonstration asking for the
elimination of the discrimination against black people. This is also serious
problem. The scene of the demonstration is shown below.
In
conclusion, in the United States, people have to watch the police officer’s
wrongdoing, although, properly speaking, it is the other way around. As I
mentioned above, now the police can shoot people too easily and they are often sentenced
to be not guilty, because the human right of the police is protected too much.
This society seems to be poor and strange in terms of justice. In addition, the
US is the center of the world, so it should be the good model. Otherwise, many
problem, such as racial discrimination, will not be solved forever. This is
controversial and we should solve this problem as soon as possible.
