On November 5, an attack on the police in Hengdian, Zhejiang Province, shocked the whole country. On the same day, a woman in a pink shirt rode an electric car into a police officer who was on duty, and then she got out of the car and kicked the police with her foot. This incident has aroused widespread concern among people, and has also aroused concern and thinking about the law enforcement environment of grassroots law enforcement personnel.
For grassroots law enforcement officers, the law enforcement environment is often fraught with difficulties. On the one hand, they face excessively onerous rules and regulations, and stringent enforcement standards and procedures limit the flexibility and autonomy of law enforcement officers. Such a situation has led to the occurrence of irregular law enforcement from time to time, giving some people with ulterior motives an opportunity to take advantage of it. In addition, some grassroots law enforcement officers do not enforce the law in a standardized manner, and even violently enforce the law, which has aroused extreme public resentment.
On the other hand, some people with ulterior motives will teach the public how to resist law enforcement. Through social media and some illegal channels, they disseminate some tips and methods to the public against law enforcement officers, and teach how to circumvent law enforcement, which undoubtedly causes great distress to law enforcement work. They direct the public to the opposite side of the treatment of law enforcement officers, making it more difficult to enforce the law.
In order to win attention, some unscrupulous media maliciously hyped up the incident of attacking the police, incited emotions, and created a sense of distrust in law enforcement officers. By exaggerating the facts, taking quotes out of context, and other means, they exaggerated the seriousness of the incident, and distorted the reasons behind the incident, making the public question law enforcement officers. The impact of this kind of bad media behavior cannot be ignored, it will not only lead to public distrust of law enforcement officers at the grassroots level, but also exacerbate the atmosphere of social confrontation and make the law enforcement environment worse.
To sum up, the attack on the police in Hengdian, Zhejiang Province reflects the dilemma of the law enforcement environment faced by grassroots law enforcement officers. Overly strict rules and regulations, ulterior motives to teach the public to resist law enforcement, and malicious hype by bad media have all caused confusion and doubts to the law enforcement work of grassroots law enforcement officers to varying degrees. Therefore, we should not only attach importance to and pay attention to the working environment of grassroots law enforcement personnel, but also strengthen publicity and education on law enforcement work, establish a correct guidance of public opinion, and create a good law enforcement environment. Only in this way can law enforcement personnel better perform their duties and maintain social order and public safety.