Law enforcement occupations

The challenge ascertaining whether there is a solution to the apparent lack of empathy between police departments and minority groups, so often exaggerated by the media, and my career with Burke’s Law interviewing and investigating both the police and minorities easily lead me to selecting: B. Insufficient empathy between police and minority groups in the United States. How to increase empathy between police and minority groups in the United States. My beginning research started with the United…

Introduction. The city of Worcester, Massachusetts, is located 40 miles West of Boston, with a population of 181,045 residents, making it the second most populated city in New England. Worcester is also home to over nine colleges and universities that is world-renowned for research and development in biotechnology and the life sciences. The city prides it to be a smart city with vibrant cultures, and educational institutions such as, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester…

A group of masters candidates from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy compiled this report for their client, the SAFE Center, an anti-trafficking organization located in College Park, Maryland. The SAFE Center provides direct services to trafficking survivors (regarding legal, medical, mental health, and economic empowerment), engages in research to improve those services, and advocates justice for survivors. This report contains an in-depth explanation of trauma,…

not having to call the police to force that person out the mall. Sometimes that isn’t the case as mall cops have the right to arrest people and even carry an armed weapon which is legal in some states. People don’t think highly of mall cops as law enforcement but with the right to arrest and carry a weapon you can beg to differ. Mall cops should be better understood for these reasons listed above for they are misunderstood…

I have been looking into getting into criminology here at UNI for my major. I always thought it would be a cool fun job to be a police officer. If I did become a police officer I would want to do it at a bigger city. This is why I choose to do my job shadow at the Waterloo Police Department. Waterloo is the biggest city with the most crime, that is closest to cedar falls. I want a job that you will always live on the end and that will be different from day to day. So, I called down the the…

of police. A less formal system of social control worked well for hundreds of years, particularly in more rural and sparsely populated regions, however the mass genesis to cities for work in the early 19th century made it a lot harder to enforce the law. (Mason, 2004). Initially, the public feared that a police force would act as part of the military. As result, there was reluctance to agree to them. In order to overcome this opposition, Peel created the primary principles of policing, which…

Officers all over the United States unknowingly take into consideration their own implicit biases when determining who to stop and how aggressively to act, and due to a lack of proper training, they tend to make mistakes that have recently resulted in tragedies. Police officers, just like normal individuals, automatically create associations between certain groups of people and certain behaviors (this phenomenon is most commonly referred to as stereotyping). However, training officers with real…

From my grandmother’s influence to my participation in various research programs to my commitment to community service, I have formed my research interests through deep introspection into what I feel is the most important to me. I am interested in the interaction between oppressed minority groups and majority groups, specifically looking at gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity. The interaction I am most interested in is how individuals in the majority of each of these groups form…

In his study Fogelson introduces two major reform movements among big city police. The first movement was the progressive movement, in which the progressives consisting of the upper middle class wanted manage cities in a similar way a successful business would be maintained. The main significance was made on the aspects of honesty and efficiency. The progressives demanded that the official at the top of the department had prior knowledge of everything going on within their department as well as…

Personally, I believe that community policing happens when an officer is bonded with many citizens of a community. Officers that show respect for people of the community seem as though they put the extra step into policing. Showing that they want to proactively prevent crime before it happens, makes the officer respectable, in my opinion. Knowing the citizens, almost on a personal level, is easier accomplished in a small town, municipal agency, however, it shows good character and gives cops a…