When Peace Officers Dress for War Summary

When police officers are coming at you dressed for battle with military grade weaponry they see it as being ready for anything, but what the people see is a threat and it just escalates the outcome of the situation. It is highly unnecessary for small town police departments to acquire military weapons. Especially when they aren't required to have any training on how to use it, but are expected to use it within one year. Since they're expected to use it in such a small amount of time and our country has no issues that call for that level of weapons, then the police are just going to use this equipment in obscene ways.

This equipment and uniforms from the military could also put police into a different state of mind. police of most towns don't see much war like activity if any, but when they have the means to dress the part of a soldier they might actually act like they're going into battle. This will just make problems worse when they begin to bring these big guns to small disturbances. The most common example is what happened in Ferguson, MO. When a couple small riots began, the police brought out guns, heavy duty uniforms, guns, even tanks, and what did that do? The whole town became a war zone and all of the people turned against the police because they felt so threatened.

National Geographic America's Hardest Prison Predators Summary

The video I chose to watch was National Geographic America's Hardest Prison Predators. The show followed two inmates in Lebanon prison as their story is told. The first inmate was Alberta who was in prison for shooting a man four times in a drug deal gone wrong. He is also a leader of the Crip gang, therefor Albert is very respected in the prison because people are afraid of him. The second inmate was Scott and had just been sentenced to prison for getting into a car accident with a pregnant woman killing her unborn child. Unlike Albert, Scott was at the bottom of the food chain since he had only been there a few days.

It was interesting to see what goes on inside this prison and how many inmates turn to gangs just so they can be a part of a group for protection while they are locked up. During the shake down portion i defiantly thought the officers would find more weapons than they did due to the amount of gang members there were and it also seemed like a lot of fights occurred. What most surprised me was when Albert met with the mother and wife of the man he shot. While I thought it was very thoughtful of him to do so they could have closure, I wouldn't have guessed a leader of a dangerous gang would do something like that.