For the past several years, police in the U.S. have come under an extreme amount of scrutiny and criticism in the public eye, in the wake of numerous high profile police killings of African-American citizens, such incidents include, but are by no means limited to: Oscar Grant, Aiyana Jones, Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Grey, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, Philando Castille and literally too many more for me to list all here. All of these events, in conjunction with other documented instances of police brutality and violence have sparked countless protest in various cities and states across the entire country questioning the legitimacy and integrity of not just of police departments nationwide but the institution of U.S. policing as a whole.

Even prior to these highly publicized police killings very few would argue the fact that it is extremely difficult to convict police officers in this…