Importance of Police Officer Essay

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    Introduction Police brutality is causing a major fuss with all the current African American sh ootings. People believe that African Americans are being targeted when others believe that it shouldn’t matter. When police officers are trained, they are taught to go into high crime areas and low-level signs of disorder. “Racial segregation this both concentrates African Americans in “high crime areas” in which entire communities are criminally suspect and makes African Americans “out of place” and…

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    Case Study Of Negligence

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    After Officer Onge explained what to do in case of emergency, his first call came in. Dispatch had received a call from a gentleman by the name of Mr. Jenkins. The situation was that Mr. Jenkins was riding near the construction on Canton Connecter when a piece of rock fell out of a dump truck and damaged the windshield of his vehicle. Mr. Jenkins needed an officer to come so that he could file this accident with his insurance company. After some miscommunication, and trying for find this…

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    Always Running Summary

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    focusses on the Chicano movement during the 1970’s. A common theme in Always running besides gang life is police brutality. In one of the primary documents about the rise of the black panthers Huey newton mentions that the police were impolite and would not hesitate to shoot and kill a black male even at time in the back. This reminded me of when Miguel was shot in the back by police officers in Always running and that led an enormous amount of violence and organization. The fact is although…

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    Discrimination In Media

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    media now, we see police officers hurting innocent people. The videos that are shown on the media are very short but has very graphic material. Some of the videos shows the discrimination towards black people. This causes us viewers to interpret it wrong .With this said, this causes riots throughout community causing campaigns such as BlackLivesMatter. With this campaign, we see black people rebelling towards discrimination. That they will take a stand and not let the police officers hurt their…

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    struggle between white and black? Is it because society is only interested in hearing about what is going wrong in the world, or is the media trying to create controversy and increase racial tensions? There are many stories in the news related to racism: police brutality, education, crime; the media has a way of portraying these matters or specific incidents to indicate that America is racist. What might happen if the media, specifically, and society in general, were to focus on the good…

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    of years police officers have received a great deal of pressure to wear born cameras. This pressure came after events took place where deaths were caused by police officers. This article deals with a study that was conducted in Orlando, Florida with the Orlando Police Department. The study collected data from police officers within the Orlando Police department and examined their personal views on body-worn cameras. Prior to this study there had been no other experiments conducted on police…

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    wanted to make sure they sent trained police officers to properly deal with the situation. Two Dallas police officers responded to the call and the body cam video of one of them recorded what happened at the scene. When the officers knock on the door, Shirley answered and walked outside followed by her 38 years old son, Jason Harrison who had a screwdriver in his hand. The police officers asked him to drop the screwdriver; because Jason did not followed the officers’ instructions, he was shoot 5…

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    year, Salt Lake City police were called to a 7-Eleven gas station on a report of a young man with a possible firearm. They spotted a man who fit the description coming out of the gas station with friends. They asked the men to get down on the ground, two subjects complied while one pleaded against the police and refused to get down. After reaching into his pocket, the officer opened fire and shot and killed 20 year old Dillon Taylor. This case sounds similar to a lot of the police killings…

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    more important aspect of physical health for police officers is cardio. Police officers are far more likely to need cardiovascular endurance while on the job. If conditioning is not good enough, the heart does not pump blood sufficiently to the body, and as a result, the officers cannot do their job properly (Oldham, 2001). Bisset, Bisset and Snell (2012) suggest that foot pursuits generally last no longer than 100 yards; therefore, should an officer train by running miles everyday or by…

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    danger? A police officer, that is what I want to, no strive to be. I want to be that person people can run to, to feel safe. I want to set an example for generations to come and show them that the police are there to protect them not to hurt them or cause destruction to their families or home life. Now days police officers are under fire from the public for so many reasons. I want to be a part of changing how the public views the police. Including how people feel just being around officers.…

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