Reflective essay

I recently saw the moving Changling, staring Jeffrey Donovan and Angelina Jollie. This is a true story that takes place during the late 20’s in Los Angeles. A single mother comes home, after working extra shifts for the telephone company, to find her nine-year-old boy has been abducted. During the time this event occurred, the LAPD was waging a war against their public image as corrupt and above the law. The police used the abduction to prove their worth to the city but failed to retrieve the right boy.
This was a really good movie that seems to be doing really well in the box office. Out of fear that someone might read my blog, I will not say anymore about how the plotlines twist. Just the thought that our police system at one time was this corrupt to have a movie made is the real shocking plotline. These cops lived above the law they were meant to enforce. Sad reality of the whole movie is that we might have learned nothing from our past. The ratings for this movie are great because of the reality of the movie being true and the fascination that the American public has with drama. True stories are nice when you take the mistakes of the past and show how we learn and grew from them. Over the next 8o years we had the information about what could happen if we don’t hold our officials to a higher standard of living.
Power is ultimately very corrupting. If you have power then chances are you probably don’t want to loose it. This brings a conflict of interest of your ethics. Changling showcased great examples of people having their political, occupational, and social power tested and how they reacted to the loss of just a little of their power. Is the chief of police never wrong? Police chief will never stand up and say we might have made a mistake. Do politicians always tell the truth? If they did then there would probably be far less scandals than our United States one-a-year average.