A better world is out there, but how do we achieve it? That’s a central question that should have a simple answer. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple to have a plan that everyone will follow and laws will be simply followed. Ever since the founding of the U.S.A., there are a list of laws that people follow. There were even laws that discriminated against someone’s race and even sexual orientation. Over the last few hundred years, many people and officials have overturned and started to make those laws more equitable for everyone to live. Yet, there’s still some work to do. Racial Justice involves many layers that federal, state and local officials must recognize not right and talk with the citizens to move forward for law enforcement to be accountable.

Black and other persons of color in America are currently fighting for accountability among law enforcement officers when they shoot and kill an innocent person. When someone is complying at a traffic stop and deliberately harass them. Even when a person is innocent of the crimes and the law still tries to charge them for something to hold them back of their goals. Black Americans in major metro cities want police reform and to “defund” the current budget from their cities law enforcement budget. Now, when people say they want their local police department to be “defunded”, it doesn’t mean that the department will have little money to operate. Many people want to use those funds to assist with things police are not trained with and certified. If a major city’s police department has a budget of about $150 million dollars, maybe the city wants $50 million dollars of that to be used toward social services to assist people in difficult situation or to have social workers to come out to people who may be homeless or dealing with a mental health crisis.

Another point is the justice for the individuals that are dying in the hands of law enforcement and walking away scot free. In many of the cases that involve law enforcement and a regular citizen, once the investigations are over, the police chief or Attorney General for the state will say that the officers action were justified in the acts they were carrying out. What are we fighting for? Accountability. Justice. Answers. Many people are tired of public entities of holding back information and talking to the public about the problems of the community.

Now, I know that a better world is coming and there will be huge changes coming to the way investigations are handled and dealt with. In the next posting, I will share some resources on how to address and how I would deal with it.