Re: CopWatch
I very much enjoyed the CopWatch documentary video despite the problems I personally have with the message they try to convey. I believe the CopWatch documentary and the creator(s) has a very valid point to establish, but I think they go about it in the wrong way. Immediately as the video begins I found a problem with it, the fact that the woman starts off with saying that the basis of police forces is in racism and slavery. Now don’t get me wrong, I do acknowledge that there is an abundance of extremely unnecessary police brutality, and that even today there is racism which I believe by this point in history should not be a factor in society at all. We are all people, color does not matter, and I feel sorry for those who still are racist and hope that we can eventually get past it. Back to the video, I think that what the people who are making the documentary is extremely rude, ignorant, and disruptive to the police officers which they follow. Police officers are not inherently racist and brutal and I think that these people that follow them and try to catch that aspect of people only help to aid the stereotype and hinder police forces more than help them progress into a better system. Also, following these officers around not only puts the documenters in danger of getting caught up in something that they have no place in, but it distracts the officers from the objective of their duty, which is not to alienate people of a different color or to exude brutality, but to protect the citizens of the U.S. and to uphold the law.
