It’s no secret that officers in the US police forces have to make split-second, life or death decisions in their line of work. It definitely isn’t an easy job, not to mention the apparent risks involved.

But busting into a wrong house address and using excessive force in all increasing numbers, especially on minorities, has come into much more scrutinize light with the use of required police body cams and spectator I-phones. And it should. How else can we hold people who are supposed to protect us accountable at the scene of confrontation?

It’s just downright sad that so many times a policeman’s piece is so quickly resorted to in any given situation. Nobody should be shot for just a broken tail light, or die from being tased, arrested or transported, etc., etc., etc.

America may well be the greatest nation on Earth for a number of reasons, but our murder rate exceeds all other industrialized nations. And the very immigrants who are seeking asylum from death in their countries, ought to think twice about how safe they are in America today.

Why does it so frequently seem that in order to obtain peace we always have to resort to a piece (guns at all levels) to get the opposition’s attention.