A police officer must assume each role when they are called out for any criminal behavior that is reported to them. When a crime has been committed an officer is called to the scene to apprehend the subject in question. If the officer wasn’t there or let the criminal go the community would be put in a state of fear that the criminal may strike again. This would create an uproar within the community and in order to preserve the peace within an officer must apprehend the subject in question and have them pay for their crime and calm the community. People rely on officers to keep and restore the peace in society and if they don’t do their jobs the society goes into panic mode. As seen in the protesting around America the last few years. If people who commit crimes are not equally apprehended, the peace in a community is gone. The job of an officer is to try and keep the balance neutral by arresting criminals and in return preserves the peace (Schmalleger,
A police officer must assume each role when they are called out for any criminal behavior that is reported to them. When a crime has been committed an officer is called to the scene to apprehend the subject in question. If the officer wasn’t there or let the criminal go the community would be put in a state of fear that the criminal may strike again. This would create an uproar within the community and in order to preserve the peace within an officer must apprehend the subject in question and have them pay for their crime and calm the community. People rely on officers to keep and restore the peace in society and if they don’t do their jobs the society goes into panic mode. As seen in the protesting around America the last few years. If people who commit crimes are not equally apprehended, the peace in a community is gone. The job of an officer is to try and keep the balance neutral by arresting criminals and in return preserves the peace (Schmalleger,