Daniel Hahn

On Monday May 2, 2016 Roseville’s Chief of Police Daniel Hahn came to the Sierra College Gateway Campus to speak with our community justice class. He began by telling us a little about his background and why he became a police officer. Chief Hahn grew up in Oak Park, which is known to be one of Sacramento’s most crime ridden cities. Law Enforcement was always viewed negatively by those who lived there; therefore, growing up Daniel never envisioned that someday he would become a police officer .That being the case, he decided to go to college to achieve a degree in business. At 19 yrs. old Daniel had a friend, who harassed him to take the test for the Sacramento Police Academy, thus he did only because it paid more than what he was making at the time. Incidentally, he never had the intention to continue working as Community Service Officer, because his goal was to finish college and become a teacher or a rich business man. In 1989 he was offered a position to become a police officer and once again because it paid more he accepted the job. Ten years later Officer Hahn realized that he liked being cop and loved working with the …show more content…
We talked about the OJ Simpson trial and if justice was served, in which we all agreed that it was not. We concluded that money buys freedom and that if it were one of us we most likely would have been convicted. Next, we talked about the Ferguson Police Department and how they handled the case against Darrin Wilson shooting Michael Brown. The fact that Ferguson Police Department left Michael Brown laying in the street for several hours uncovered like a dead dog is one of the main reasons why the community is in an uproar. Ferguson police did not display compassion towards the situation nor did they apologize to the community, which produced a greater lack of faith and trust in the eyes of the