The way police officers have handled certain situations in the past does not seem socially acceptable. Since the Michael Brown incident, people across the country are now afraid of the police and feel like they can't even ask them for help. Across America, slogans such as “Hands up, don’t shoot” immediately began to be popular and 8 people were even arrested in Miami for protesting (Schwartz, Shear, & Paulson, 2014). I had been talking with some of my friends from back home about what they thought about the police and how situations had been handled recently, and I was told that some of my closest friends didn't feel not safe around the cops because they didn't know what to do. it will happen next. I'm from Davenport, Iowa, so the worst thing that happened in my hometown was the recent gang shootings, but we never had anything police related, but my family and friends didn't relate to it. don't even feel safe. Police militarization should only be implemented if the situation is serious enough, for example if someone was taking people hostage, that would be a situation where police militarization would come into play. "If the situation warrants, “tactical units will be on scene,” said Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson (Schwartz, Shear, & Paulson, 2014). Captain Johnson, who was a former law enforcement officer responsible for overseeing security there, joined a group of passing protesters, walking with them as his eyes scanned the roadway. “I know a lot of them,” he said. “Our police department should reflect our community, and that's why we're all here” (Schwartz, Shear and Paulson,