My view on our police

My Views,

In all but one of the last 6 or so officer involved deaths of a suspect the underlying problem I see is the suspect resisted arrest and caused his own death.

Perhaps there needs to be an explanation of what an officer is charged with doing when confronting an individual so that the general public understands how they should react if or when they are confronted with some kind of involvement with any law enforcement officer.

 There are several types of first contact and they don't always mean arrest, BUT, when the officer advises he is placing you under arrest he feels as if you exhibit something to suspect you may be or are planing to commit some type of crime or breach of law that needs to be investigated further.

Traffic stops allow the officer to run your tag and check your registration to determine if you have outstanding warrants which would cause an arrest or he saw you break a traffic law and has stopped you to issue a ticket to appear. This doesn't have to end in an arrest unless a record check warrants it.

But in that event don't make it worse by adding a felony to the charge by resisting arrest.

If an officer is responding to a call his first order off business is get control of the situation. If you are armed or if you are acting violent he will have to place you under arrest at least until he finds out if you or anyone else are a danger to anyone and at that time you may be released but again don't resist and get an automatic felony charge added to your situation.

Remember one thing, If you resist you are committing a felony in front of a law enforcement officer and leaves the officer with no choice but to place you under arrest and he can use as much force as is needed to accomplish that task including the use of deadly force. Couple that with the fact that he has to protect his weapon at all times and you can see most officers are not out to kill anyone and don't even want to have an altercation with anyone, but just have a very hard job to do while staying safe protecting the general safety of the people they serve.

I also know that there are some LEO's [Law Enforcement Officers] who have been on the force a long time and have had to deal with the dregs of society for so long that they get pretty hard core and don't have a lot of tolerance for the habitual criminal and some times have trouble with even a first time law breaker but unfortunately that kind of attitude comes with the territory, you just get to where you feel that everyone is lying  and are trying to get something over on you and that gives them some emotional baggage to live with that some times stays with them all their lives.    

 In closing I would just remind everyone that if you have to deal with an arrest DO NOT resist! Go with the flow and call an attorney to handle your case in court because very few people have a good outcome from that kind of altercation with the law.