As a unit, the primary duty of all members of the #police force is to ensure the safety and security of the lives and properties of their city's residents. It falls on the good men and women of the law to ensure that dangerous situations are brought to a safe, succinct and appropriate conclusion. 

Ideally that is how these affairs are supposed to transpire, but in reality they tend to play out quite differently. Sad to say, officers sometimes run afoul of the law themselves while carrying out their duty. 

In recent years, people have increased their calls to reevaluate the police forces across America. That's all well and good but if we want real lasting improvements, it calls for a thorough and extensive understanding of what exactly is expected of officers of the law while in the line of duty.

The vast majority of police officers are sincere in their intentions to protect and serve. It is impossible to deny the fact that some have perpetrated violent criminal acts against those they were sworn to defend, and it is crucial that justice be served on behalf of their victims.  

In an effort to prevent police brutality and abuse of power, it should come as no  surprise that bills would be proposed to effectively make it mandatory that members of the public would be permitted to attend and actively weigh in on the discussion of police force contracts with the city. On the surface, yes, this seems like a well-thought idea, but it is not without its limitations. 

Creating unnecessary steps like insisting that negotiations between the City Council and the police force must be subject to public opinion not only infringes greatly on the rights of these officers, it actively demonizes them in the eyes of the public. Some officers of the law have run afoul of the #law, that is true. What is also true is that a greater number of these officers lay down their lives everyday in service of the people. 

They do not deserve public persecution. Keep contracts between the police and the city the way it has always been. That is the least anyone can do to honor these people's sacrifice.