Statistically speaking, cops kill an American citizen every 8 hours. On top of that, less than 1% of those cops are indicted for their crimes. To put that into perspective, 90% of citizens involved in killings are indicted. So far this year, there have been 1,020 (reported) people killed by police, and each of those people, along with their stories, can be viewed right here. It truly is alarming to think about how much power these people who are just like you, me, and the people you pass walking down the street have over everybody; and just how immune they are to the law.
In 1991, Rodney King was beaten brutally by four L.A.P.D officers after an 8-mile high speed chase. King resisted arrest once the chase finally ended and that was when the officers allegedly pulled him out of the car and beat him repeatedly. Luckily, the beating was caught on camera by George Holliday, otherwise King likely would have either been killed in the beating, or found guilty due to racial imbalance. All four of the L.A.P.D officers involved in the beating were found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and use of excessive force. On top of all this, King's beating was the center (or cause) of the 1992 LA Riots.
Personally, I am afraid of the police. They're supposed to be the protectors of peace, who stop the guilty in order to protect the innocent. But instead of that, they are the protectors of their pockets, using taxpayers money to rule the playground and bully all those around them. The criminal justice system is a joke in this country, and other nations look at us in shame for the mistakes that we make. It's honestly embarrassing to have these so called "soldiers of the citizens" as our icon for the protection of the public. Change needs to happen, and it needs to happen soon before we fall into a Police State (which we are growing closer to every day).
Nuclear energy, while it is an extremely effective source of energy production, is also an extremely messy source of energy production. There is not really a way to make nuclear energy "clean" by any sense of the word. However, holding every drop of toxic waste produced at each plant on-site is probably the worst idea anybody has come up with. There have been efforts to move all nuclear waste to places such as Yucca Mountain, where the waste would be placed miles underground where it couldn't be used to hurt anybody. The problem with Yucca Mountain as a solution is that nobody in the surrounding region is willing to house the waste so close to where they live.
As of right now, there isn't much that is known about nuclear energy. Of course we are miles ahead of where we were just twenty years ago, however that doesn't mean that we are experts with it in any way. Maybe we know enough to harness the energy into a weapon, but the real test is whether or not we can mass produce the energy in a clean and reliable way, then use it in people's houses without any possibility of harming the residents.
The first step that we need to take is to move all of the nuclear waste we have produced and get it out of the way so that it doesn't harm anybody, and cannot be used against mankind in a negative way. Once we do that, we need to figure out a way to produce nuclear energy without creating any more
waste, otherwise we are going to have a problem that we cannot handle without spewing our garbage into the solar system, which will only create more problems in the future. Then, and only then, will we have a functioning system for the production of nuclear energy.
Statistically speaking, cops kill an American citizen every 8 hours. On top of that, less than 1% of those cops are indicted for their crimes. To put that into perspective, 90% of citizens involved in killings are indicted. So far this year, there have been 1,020 (reported) people killed by police, and each of those people, along with their stories, can be viewed right here. It truly is alarming to think about how much power these people who are just like you, me, and the people you pass walking down the street have over everybody; and just how immune they are to the law.
Personally, I am afraid of the police. They're supposed to be the protectors of peace, who stop the guilty in order to protect the innocent. But instead of that, they are the protectors of their pockets, using taxpayers money to rule the playground and bully all those around them. The criminal justice system is a joke in this country, and other nations look at us in shame for the mistakes that we make. It's honestly embarrassing to have these so called "soldiers of the citizens" as our icon for the protection of the public. Change needs to happen, and it needs to happen soon before we fall into a Police State (which we are growing closer to every day).
