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Inglewood orders sweeping evaluation of police training
By Andrew Blankstein and Ari B. Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
7:29 PM PDT, September 4, 2008

Summary:
This article was about an incident not too long after a couple officer-involved shootings happened in Inglewood, California. Inglewood city leaders had advised a sweep on the local police departments so they can evaluate the police academy training and make some kind of changes so that the rate of the incidents drop.

Connection:
A topic we studied in class was Locke's belief in "Social Contract" where the citizens themselves have some mutual agreement where they allow the government to take action so they can protect their natural rights. I believe that the people reacted to the incidents in which the Inglewood city leaders took action to protect the people's natural rights. In this case protecting there natural right to life.

Response:
I do feel that this event covers the "Social Contract" idea. The deaths of the people who were in the incident were taken into thought and the police department training were involved. The city leaders made the right choice to do an evaluation sweep on local police so they can change the training and the actions of the police to protect the natural lives of these people. I found it surprising that just in the last couple months that there were deaths all involving the police and I do understand that they are doing there job to protect but shouldn't there be boundaries?