Brooklyn's Finest

Brooklyn's Finest 

[Blu-ray] 

DVD — Richard Gere 

Fighting failed government policy with more police, guns, corruption, and endless loss of lives., March 8, 2010 I assume the title New York's Fr-lest" was avoided for trademark conflict. The "finest" motto is the subject of ridicule, as those poor cops have nothing [fine] going for them on any front. 

The Ex-NYC Police Chief Bernard Kerik's imprisonment is an example of the ugliness of working in a bureaucratically corrupt system. The charisma, ultimate sacrifice in securing, protecting, and helping society to conform to law and order, are rewarded with the ultimate despair of each policeman's family, poor health, contempt to their exceptional commitments by government officials, and suspicion and mistrust of the public. On its façade, the policemen are given figurative lip service and glorified for political gains. In reality, the policemen are left to the perils of excessive and outmatching fire power of criminals and drug dealers, the shear number of unemployed, uneducated, and troubled citizens, and the endless and complicated social decay. The profiteers are the career-thirsty state-officials, sitting on their Mahogany, shinning desks, isolated from the reality of urban warfare. Every fine cop portrayed in the movie, and fits perfectly real life scenario, is exposed to the ultimate death, yet compensate hourly and on overtime basis. 

Most cops work irregular shifts, smoke, and stressed to the end, could not support their family, and resort to prostitution to fill their missing human needs. 

 Furthermore, the perfect kids of this great Country of ours, who were raised to glorify the saintship of being on the right-side of the law, such as cops, are faced with the reality of political corruption that serves state officials. On the other side, the movie displays the endless blood battles that claim the lives of many innocent blacks, whose only crime was possessing, dealing, or using drugs. Not as if the government cares about eradicating drugs from society, since that requires creating economic situation conducive to financial security, but because state officials could play the PR game of staying in office and gaining more power. 

Most of the dead and dying, poor blacks, have no access to opportunities or any glimpse of hope that could brighten their future. The movie succeeded in questioning the rationale of trusting the government to solve any social or economic problem without the creative and proactive role of the public in holding its governments accountable in making and enforcing laws that could do good to the people.