Three-fold citizenship Issues: Local, National, Gobal

Local:  In Elk Grove, Sacramento, there's some issues that aren't talked about that i have seen in Elk Grove.  One that i witness, hear, and see about is how cops in the town pull people over with no reason.  They sometimes make up a false reason or sometimes don't give a reason.  My friend once pulled over his vehicle to stop and get something out of his trunk real quick and it wasn't illegal how he did it, and since it was at night the cop put his lights on behind him and asked if he had been drinking.  He asked the cop if it seemed like he was drinking or why the cop was asking him this and he just said because it was a weekend night.  I think that is total crap that cops are allowed to do that because they have been pulling over innocent people at night just because other people are idiots and they can't catch them, so they try to make the innocent people feel like they're doing something wrong when they aren't.  It has happened to me once and i believe he pulled me over because it was a Saturday night and it was around 1 and i had a full car.  I wasn't breaking any rules because i was 18 so i wasn't out after curfew.  It made me so mad because it was just a waste of my time.  I think they do this just because they never catch some of the people being idiots.  But it would be obvious if they were being idiots to pull them over with a reason instead of pointlessly pulling over people for no reason. 
National: An issue that always catches my eyes in the nation that many people do not take seriously, is smoking ads. These ads are so horrible and drive me crazy.  They are on billboards, in mostly every magazine i have seen, commercials, and so much more.  For some reason these companies want to poison the nation and want to make it look like it's cool while they're doing it.  All the ads are the most disgusting misleading ads of all.  When young teens see a hot person that is smoking in an ad and that teen is insecure of coarse they will think it looks cool and then will start smoking.  The advertisement basically said it is cool by doing this by the pictures and things the ads say.  I feel like ads like this shouldn't be able to be posted anywhere because they do nothing but damage people.  They only damage people because it leads to addiction and health risks.  Yes so maybe it is a relaxer for people who do it but how many other healthy things could you be doing to relax you or make the stress go away? So many other things can be advertised that are not something that will cause people to die!
Global: Issues that trigger my mind when i think globally would be be poverty because sometimes people in America do not think of us being a country full of poverty but globally there's a lot of problems in the world with how much poverty there is.  There will always be the people who may not deserve to be poor but have been so called lazy and don't work hard to not be in poverty.  But for alot of people it isn't by choice and they can't do much about it due to maybe their countries, government, etc.  Often times when it happens to deal with their countries and government there is not much they can do about the huge population in poverty.  This is because usually the people with the control over that government and country are the rich people and do not care that alot of their country or even the majority of it is full of poverty.  The government can sometimes be helpless to this situation and can do nothing to help.  Although this happens I think if we came together as a nation and really worked together on it, it seems to me it could work.  There just may be too many careless people in the world that don't care about the other countries who suffer which can be a big problem.  One day though I would hope that this issue can be taken care of completely or cleaned up alot for the sake of all the countries who do suffer from so much poverty.