Revised Rant

In today's world, many people don't appreciate the authority of those in charge. I am guilty of this myself sometimes. My original rant was about a time I was in Colorado when I was pissed off with someone in charge. A ski safety worker stopped me for skiing too fast in a slow zone. I was mad that he was not able to make an exception since there was no one else around me.

After some thinking, I realized I had no right to expect the ski safety worker to not stop me. It is his job to stop people who are skiing too fast for the safety of other skiers. If he had made an exception for me then it would only be fair that he makes exceptions for others.

Incidents like this happen all the time with drivers. People are constantly getting pulled over for driving too fast and have to pay speeding tickets.This creates a bad perception on the way cops are viewed since they usually only talk to people when they break laws. Police officers are only doing their job to keep all of the other drivers safe.

This leads to my main point. Nowadays, it seems like the only time we hear about cops in the news is if they commit crimes. What about the vast majority of the cops who put their lives in danger to protect us? I suppose we don't hear of any courageous acts of officers on the news anymore because it doesn't stir up as much of a reaction.

It frustrates me that many times police officers are portrayed as people who are power hungry. People take for granted what police officers do to keep the rest of us safe. A lot of this stems from the media. Lately, it seems like the only time a police officer is brought up on the news is if he or she possibly committed a racist crime. I really hope this perception changes eventually.

I decided that the best way for me to share my rant would be through twitter. There are many advantages to using twitter. Twitter allows people to network efficiently and with large groups of people. People can communicate with their target audience immediately. It’s not as time consuming as creating a website to get a point across. I am able to send a post immediately to a mass group of people and also receive instant feedback. However, there are also some drawbacks. I have to limit my posts to 140 words or less since that is all that is allowed. Additionally, I need to constantly be posting on twitter for people to see my posts.  Because of all the interaction on twitter, if I only post one or two times a day, my posts will quickly be buried in my followers' news feeds.