Police officers have three main functions, which are law enforcement, order maintenance, and the service function. Police interact with a lot of different people on a daily basis, ranging from criminals to law abiding citizens. Depending on the person they are interacting will depict the way they would react. Furthermore, if they are dealing with a criminal they would act more in law enforcement mode, if they are dealing with a citizen they may be in the service mode by providing assistance to the person in need. No matter what role they are in, they don’t pursue each assignment equally the same. For example, a police officer may be more enthusiastic when fighting crime in comparison to going to service the community. The first role of the
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The service function may just be providing assistance to the elderly, helping a stranded motorist or even transporting people to places they need to go. This function is actually a combination of a lot of different things; it also now includes an educational part such as DARE in schools which is drug awareness program for children and teens. The service function to me is actually the best role the police officers can play. I think they should give back and help the community since some officers are always harassing people in the community, more so then helping …show more content…
While doing all of these things police can have a lot of discretion. When police have this privilege it can cause some problems, because the freedom can give some police room to abuse the fact and sometimes don’t use it in the right way. When I say don’t use it in the right way they may act different towards certain races, minorities to be specific. They may not use discretion correctly, they might say they smelled an illegal substance to get the right to search the car when they actually didn’t, the only reason why they did that is because they where black and some police officer thing just because they are a certain race they are out committing crimes which is not true. I don’t think anything can be done to stop these types of police officers on being bias against certain groups, because this is how people are even if they are a police officer they still are people, in which there are good people in the world and there are bad and racist people in the world. Bias won’t change unless the police as a person wants to change his or her ways, I don’t think nothing society can do to change
The service function may just be providing assistance to the elderly, helping a stranded motorist or even transporting people to places they need to go. This function is actually a combination of a lot of different things; it also now includes an educational part such as DARE in schools which is drug awareness program for children and teens. The service function to me is actually the best role the police officers can play. I think they should give back and help the community since some officers are always harassing people in the community, more so then helping …show more content…
While doing all of these things police can have a lot of discretion. When police have this privilege it can cause some problems, because the freedom can give some police room to abuse the fact and sometimes don’t use it in the right way. When I say don’t use it in the right way they may act different towards certain races, minorities to be specific. They may not use discretion correctly, they might say they smelled an illegal substance to get the right to search the car when they actually didn’t, the only reason why they did that is because they where black and some police officer thing just because they are a certain race they are out committing crimes which is not true. I don’t think anything can be done to stop these types of police officers on being bias against certain groups, because this is how people are even if they are a police officer they still are people, in which there are good people in the world and there are bad and racist people in the world. Bias won’t change unless the police as a person wants to change his or her ways, I don’t think nothing society can do to change