Police Officer Analysis

My personal experience with a police officer was different than I thought it was going to be. I used to live next to a K9 unit police officer and my first thought was he is going to be a real mean person. When I got to know he wasn't like the media put K9 units as, he was nice. He showed me his personal camera that he wears to keep him safe from lies. Also from the media is how they leave the facts in the back and bring up race and being brutal to the person. A quote from Alexa Morelli, an expert in law enforcement columnist is, "The culprit to blame for the American people's negative view of police officers is the media"(Odyssey). With his camera it keeps him safe and his dog, his partners, and the victim. Due to the lack of awareness, the media is portraying the police in negative ways. Police officers, while on duty, should be required to wear body cameras in order to protect themselves and the citizen(s). When it comes to a reporter is reporting on a case about a police officer being violent or having a misconduct, the reporters tend to leave the facts out. The reporters tend to not remain objective and start to be bias. Biased is, …show more content…
In my insight of living next to a police officer gave me some feeling on how many officers feel about wearing body cameras. He himself has had the evidence to help him and his victim from false statements made by the media. This is why more and more cops are starting to wear body cameras and station are starting to make them required. If you have evidence when you get accused of something you can very much use that evidence to show how you are not guilty or at fault. Suppose you are a cop and you are told that you are being arrested for first degree murder. What are you going to do? If you have evidence to show that you had to open fire and stop the victim from hurting you and others. What if you don't have that... then