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Police officers put their lives on the line on a daily basis to protect perfect strangers from criminal acts committed by people who have no moral or ethical compass. Police officers deal with people everyday that hate and disrespect them while doing their duty to protect the citizens of their community. The police are expected to uphold their morals and make ethical decisions in a world that has none. With their obligation to make these decisions they are sometimes wrong (Sherman, 1984). This…

cases. By doing this, I hope to show that the Austin Peay State University Police Department needs to create a physical fitness and wellness policy. This physical fitness policy is necessary because the functions performed by the police and security officers employed by the department require a level of physical fitness and general good health to carry out their duties effectively and efficiently. A physical fitness…

steps an officer must take to enforce policies because law enforcement administrators and managers decide subjectively if the action taken by the officer was right or wrong. These policies are detailed in nature to them having a higher risk of litigation. For example, an officer is faced with a hostile Inmate who appears to be under the influence of a substance. The officer attempts to communicate with the inmate, but the irate inmate begins to yell and spits in the officer’s face. The…

from her chair by the police officer, police brutality is an ongoing issue here in the United States and police body cameras is a possible solution. What is a police body camera? From the Macmillan Dictionary it states that a police body camera is a video recording system worn on the body especially by law enforcement officers. With this camera law enforcement 's can wear it and interact with the public when the police are on duty.…

use an unnecessary amount of force on civilians. However, most of the force used by police is legitimately needed. Police have little time to assess and react in very serious situations. The men and women who are police officers are well-trained professionals. All police officers, with some unfortunate exceptions, have procedural manuals that they strictly follow when using force on civilians. Most of the information put out by the media about the use of police force, is not correct. The media…

Brutality, what I know about it is a police officer will use unnecessary violence or force on a person with no reason. The reason why I chose police brutality is because ever since I was a little kid my dream was always to be a police officer so I can be able to help those around me and also to be able to protect Santa Rosa, not only that but know why and how the police officers are getting a bad reputation, I want to know why some of the police officers result to police brutality and give…

Police officers need to know how to work in a decision-making process whether and whom to arrest or if both parties need to be arrested. The first thing police officers should do in a domestic violence case, is to understand the significance of the offense. Sometimes police officers have to do a dual arrest, due to victims are the ones who uses a physical aggression supposedly as a self-defense. Is up to the police officers to make a discretionary decision on a domestic violence case. The video…

Implementation of a Body Worn Camera Program: Concept Paper Police officer involved shootings and perceptions of police misconduct in recent years have prompted the public, politicians, and other stakeholders to demand that police departments equip their officers with body worn cameras. Reactions to each new controversial police incident often lead to increased demands for agencies to institute body worn camera programs The public rightfully expects that the police will demonstrate…

some police officers leading to the unnecessary deaths has seen the US security forces being on the spot concerning their work ethics. Some may want to argue these cases such as the shooting of Michael Brown and Sandra Bland are isolated cases. Others would argue that the work of a police officer is too difficult and that sometimes such an officer needs to use such force to not only enforce the law but also to protect himself or herself while on duty. It is very true that law officers have a…

to make “Home” a safe and comfortable environment. Despite this, in the past year, several cases of police brutality and controversial shootings by police officers have lowered the public’s view of the men and women who serve to protect them. People have begun to attack law enforcement, saying that they are corrupt and racist, often the officers being attacked are white males, and that law enforcement as a whole no longer serves the public’s best interests. This viewpoint is wrong, and society…