Randy Cerny Research Paper

Police officers are brave men and women. Each of them risking their lives every day that they work, so the public can be safe. They spend less time with their families by doing their job of protecting the public, and creating a safer community for all to live in. Although there are many reports/articles on speculated racism coming from events where police officers open fire on unarmed men of color. This is not the case for many officers in the line of duty. Most officers are kind and passionate towards their work and protecting the community, trying their best to make quick second decisions that will create the best outcome for all involved.
Police officers are hard working, dedicated people, and due to this dedication, it is difficult to find the time to interact with them. Thankfully, an inside look at the perspective of a law enforcement official was kindly given to me by a former officer who now teaches at Ceres High School, Randy Cerny. Cerny has been through many different positions in his law enforcement career of twelve plus years. Having been a Patrol Deputy, Bailiff, and Detective, he has a lot of …show more content…
As a Detective Cerny remarks a lot more on what he did during this time of his career. He dealt with cases relating to burglary, gang intelligence, and was a part of a street crimes unit call S.T.I.C. (Special Team Investigating Crime). This was a somewhat dangerous, but interesting part of his career. According to Cerny he “...was always interested in the personalities and really got into the players…” when he was working with gang related cases. But even with all this interest and enjoyment in his work there was also some tragedy to it. In Ripon he lost his best friend in the line of duty during a swat raid, and nearly lost another when things got a bit out of hand when an undercover operation took a turn for the