Ricardo Role In Law Enforcement Case Study

Ricardo saw his role in his safety and the safety of others from a different stance. He described his role more in an internet safety kind of way rather than physical safety. He explained that his role was to watch what he posted on social media whether it was directed toward someone or he was just posting for his own amusement. When I explained to him how I saw it more as we need to take care of ourselves first so we can ultimately take care of others, he expressed to me that he like my point of view and agreed with me. Since we were on the topic of social media I went ahead and asked him how internet regulations increased or decreased personal, community, or national security. He felt that internet and technological regulations increase national …show more content…
There were not too many distractions and we were mostly on the same page. There were things like law enforcement and the privacy of citizens and non-citizens that we did not see eye to eye on, but we did not let that ruin the conversation. We let one another say what was on our mind and then we explain why we disagreed with each other. For me, it was not that I completely disagreed with his point of view on law enforcement I just felt that he thought so highly of them even though there have been several cases of law enforcement being too brutal to some civilians and I wanted to hear his thoughts on that matter. For the privacy of citizens and non-citizens part of the conversation, I did not understand how it would work to take privacy away of only those who are threating to the safety of the country and its citizens. I explained to him that in order for that to happen they would have to see who is a threat by taking a bit of everyone’s privacy. The rest of the conversation went smoothly since our opinions were not that different. One of the reasons I feel we agree on so many aspects of the topics is because we both come from very similar backgrounds, and another reason may be because of the time and place we were raised in. We practically grew up together in a small town, so I believe we were bound to have a similar view on a couple ideas, but since we both went different ways in life I was expecting more disagreement. It is reassuring though that someone else also has a similar view on these topics as