Ways to Denounce Police Harassment
People are acquainted with police harassment and brutality stories reported in newspapers, internet websites, TV and in other types of media. The police brutality victims, are violated, looted, harassed, tortured, and sometimes battered to death. Therefore, this is a major challenge that can divide the society and betray the trust between people and country’s security forces. It is necessary for people and government to awake and stop the growth of police’ harassment, violence, and unlawful arrests. But if right measures are taken, this problem can be brought to its end, and people will trust again their police service again. The information below will discuss fighting the police offensive behaviors against the population.
One should not think that fighting any injustice in society requires just one person. The hope to achieve any set objective will be rational if only you have received the support from every concerned citizenry. In every society people are willing and sensitive when it comes to fighting injustice and things like police brutality. Wherever people have experienced police harassment, you can be certain that they detest it. Therefore, the moment one can stand sensitizing others against it, one will succeed. And that is how justice had been achieved in many countries of the world. So, you need to start sensitizing a few people so that they sensitize more people until you will win the entire society.
If you consider working with the media, so many people will know about your exercise and hence do the same in their regions. You will reach to those you could not reach to if you work with media in this movement. Through radio and the internet, your movement will be saluted in the country and beyond its borders. Thus, you need to learn how to cooperate with media agencies.
Remember all this is to make peace but not to hate the police. If one part of the society is causing trouble, it does not have to be excluded but invited in discussion aiming peace. The cost of building peace requires such discipline. Both to the police leadership and to different government justice institutions, the police brutality question has to be addressed without involving violence. The aim should be to promote justice such that the policemen who have abused their power be punished according to the law by the administration. Some of the police brutality’s victims have been affected financially, morally, healthily, etc. The government must fully compensate every victim accordingly and provide forfeiture to the culprits.