Often times the patrol officer is the first contact made by the law enforcement agency, the officer represents the entire department and what a person think about the police is generated from the experience that is garnered by that encounter. The police are people just as the homeless are. There are good as well as bad days that an officer has. Many times the officer’s personal life is not what is in questioned, it is his professional life that have many people making negative statements about the police officer in general and the agency as a whole.
The next time that you have a negative experience with a member of law enforcement, remember that they too could be having a bad day personally and it does affect their professional life no matter the saying “don’t bring your personal life to work, and don’t take your professional life home. (Unknown Author)”
I. BEHAVIOR …show more content…
Recently the DOJ has publicly criticized many police departments for their use of force against citizens of the Unites States US. In order for us to see why the police behavior has become so violent as of late, we must look at some causes of police behavior. One cause of police behavior can be the individual officer them self. The officer on an individual basis is the only one to explain their behavior towards the citizen of the area they are assigned to