The police are being watched.

It is rare to see police brutality on a 15 year old girl, but it happened. The video is shocking because of how much force the officer used. It was obviously excessive force. It should not take that much to detain a 15 year old. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7917295.stm. This is the type of brutality the media shows when they get their hands on it, and the public views the officer that did this as a monster. It is good that he is being charged with a crime in this instance, it may help another officer avoid an event like this to happen to them.

The police should know that anything they do will be seen, police cars have their video cameras and almost everyone has a cell phone and they are able to record anything they want at anytime. It should deter the officers to use excessive force, but it does not. What will deter an officer from committing a crime on the job? We can only hope that officers that see another officer charged with a crime for his/her actions will deter them from doing the same thing. The fact that the police are in the public’s eyes and on the media’s radar should also help to deter this kind of violence.