Reports of police brutality have swept the headlines and sent our society into a tailspin. The issue impacts all people -- regardless of race. Many groups have taken to the streets in peaceful and non-peaceful protests citing that more than 920 people have been killed by the police in the year 2015 in the African American community.

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African Americans are not the only people facing the violence. Looking at statistics, as of last week close to 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since January 1, 2015. Out of all the  people shot,732 of them were white, and 381 were black.The rest (389) were considered foreign.

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That doesn’t mean police as a whole are fundamentally bad. People need to realize there are a handful of bad police officers, but most are just men and women who are doing their jobs the best they can.  But it’s hard for minorities to know whether they are facing one of the bad ones. The stories that fill news media with racially motivated tragedies have left  many people afraid of the police. People are afraid of making the smallest mistakes (or just being falsely accused) for fear that they will end up another statistic of police brutality.

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Our nation needs to heal from these wounds and build trust between police forces and their communities. To do that, governments must reconsider how the average police officer is trained and how they are engineered to react to certain civilian responses towards them.

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We as people don't always agree with how the national authorities handles things. But in the end we as the people expect the police to do their job the right way, without violence or racial inputs. 10/21/16