Police Officer Video Analysis

It’s no secret that Police Officers have one of the most stressful and worrisome job in the world. This is a profession that requires to master both cognitive thinking and physical ability on top of the daily changing social pressures that every officer has to deal with on a day to day basis especially in today’s watchful political eye. Members of the police are expected to not only be perfect law abiding citizens both on and off duty but they are also expected to be supermen with an absolute knowledge of how to react in certain situations. It’s not enough for a police officer to be physically trained for the entirety of a month (not including high school and college education) it takes a degree of awareness of what tool would be best to use in the right situation. That’s where most of the stress and the highly publicized police shootings come from. In the video we watched in class you see the positive more creative use of discretion that saves life and …show more content…
They would have focused on the fact that the was Latino while completing circumventing the fact so was the officer behind the wheel of the squad car. There would also be no mention of the criminal history Mario Valencia had committed from armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, arson, and grand theft auto. There would be absolutely nothing about him harboring a firearm. This man saved not only his life but the suspects as well and yet he could have been demonized, sent thousands of angry messages, and even a strong possibility of getting fired from the police department not because he did a bad job but because the “people” demand it. Even his the chief of police supported Officer Rapiejko saying "so you have another officer who sees and seizes an opportunity to end the threat and put an end to the situation,”(J.Hannah,