Police Officers Stereotypes

reveals how many more stops and searches are conducted against racial minorities than would be the case if they were targeted at the same rate as white individuals. These tests were consistent and show that racial minorities would receive disproportionate police attention compared to the white individuals. Furthermore, included within this protection of human rights is the use police officer’s discretion to exercise force. Without a strong exercise of control over an officer’s use of force, citizens would be at the mercy of the police able to exercise extreme amounts of physical control over them with little, or no, provocation, or at a level that is not proportional to the situation at hand.

Police Personality Joe (Ty) Trail Final Paper CRJ 451 Professor Barthe 12/10/2014 Altogether, there are a vast number of jobs whether it is a lawyer, teacher and doctor that many people inspire to be. For every job, each person develops distinctive qualities in order to adapt and respond in their environment. For a police officer, however, they are mainly focused on authority, danger and efficiency.

In this week’s module one content. I learned that there should always be police integrity and community trust. “With police and community trust, there is an honored relationship between citizens and a government agency.” (Community Trust and Police Integrity, p.7-16) Secondly, police officers must be trusted to behave in an ethical way on their own.

Police officers enforce laws, but also held to those same laws they are enforcing on a daily basis. Laws influence how police behave and how to handle some situations. While also telling them how they can and cannot act. Some author’s feel this influence from the law may be why officers, “run roughshod over legal restrictions on such activities as searches and seizures” (Herbert, 1998; Chambliss, 1994; McBarnet, 1979). Officers are rarely supervised while on patrol and if they are, it is by a fellow officer rather than a superior officer.

Names like Dontre Hamilton, Michael Brown Jr., Tamir Rice and Walter Scott are plastered on headlines and passionately spoken about on every major news station around the country. They are the names that paved way for the national discussion of police brutality against African Americans. And while these victims of horrific actions deserved much better outcomes than they got, the violence demonstrated by police officers is clearly a product of the social environment in which they parole and the racial stereotypes and discrimination that are deeply embedded in our culture. Police officers have an obligation to maintain order and protect us: the citizens of society.

Police officers are people the society should normally look up to as epitomes of discipline and protectors of law and order, however police behavior in recent years has been anything but exemplary thus rising extreme resentment and distrust in the public. In this essay I will argue that police, public interactions are the most important factor to achieve respect and mutual assistance relation. The public no longer trusts or respects police officers levying all sorts of charges against them. Police behavior is indeed despicable in some cases especially where When we delve deeper into the anthropological and psychological causes of this kind of behavior, we notice that police is influenced by a flawed subculture that profound affects the attitude and behavior of most police officers.

For this assignment, I chose stone catchers. I had the opportunity to interview Warsaw’s chief of Police Scott Whitaker. This experience was very informative. Chief Whitaker and the entire police department conveyed a strong sense of community. Scott told me that his experience in the community of Warsaw was very rewording (Whitaker).

I agree with the thought of the quote fifty fifty. There are certain people that can take power into their hands and do good with it, but there are also a few that can’t control it correctly. Those people that can’t control it tend to think they are better than everyone else and their irrational actions turns them into bad people. One example of this is today 's police force.

Law enforcement has many tools they use to when determining how to approach a call. Whether the call is a traffic stop, a domestic call, or looking for a suspect to a crime. They all use their experience and judgement or better known as police discretion. Officers use their years of experience and knowledge to decide how to approach a situation. They have to come up with strategies to deal with each situation.

County police is the smallest police branch in the United States, this type of police is usually located in small countries and countryside. Usually in every county Sheriff that was nominated and voted on, generally the sheriff has a permit from the state to conduct the work of the police like the investigation and arrests and others, at the county level only . When there is a sheriff's office in the county, it does not mean that there are no state police in the county, it can be both together enforce the law and that's what's happening in Maryland . The powers of the Sheriff office vary in three categories, the first one is the type of full service provision for the county, and the full service means responsibility for law enforcement and