Law enforcement officer

recruitment strategy. Being a police officer is a high risk and high stress job and finding recruits to become officers can be challenging. The hiring process can be difficult and is not taken lightly. People who want to become a law enforcement officer must meet basic requirements, take physical and mental examinations, pass background checks and have a face to face meeting for interviews. When the hire process has begun, most leadership ensures future police officers display skills such as…

incidents that the police has not been punished for. Incidents like the Kalief Browder and Pedro Hernandez case, losing communication with the community, the mayor of New York City not implementing laws to improve police accountability, and police abusing their power and arresting innocent individuals. Law officers should be punished no matter what their ranking. KALIEF BROWDER’S CASE Kalief Browder was a young man who spent three years in Rikers island without being convicted of a crime. At…

Technology is becoming so advanced in today’s society. Officers are starting to wear body cameras to record what takes place on duty. In a piece written for The New Yorker, Veronica Majerol has written about the use of theses cameras and if they will benefit today’s society. Many say this will help from the police not obeying citizens rights, while other believe this will raise a concern for privacy. There is no question that something needs to be done, and theses cameras will give the public…

you do in life will end up being a stepping stone to something else. It may be a stepping stone in the positive direction, negative direction, or even to a complete turnaround. Becoming a police officer is just a stepping stone to a higher calling: Chicago SWAT. Requirements to become a police officer include physical, mental, and in some cases educational requirements. Physical requirements are usually just being fit and having good muscle stamina and endurance. Mentally, departments are…

This study explores the ethical behavior of police officers, and their attitudes toward varying degrees of transgressions. The author of this study, Louise Westmarland, states that although there has been an increased interest in police ethics, it is unclear if any cultural change has occurred; the lack of knowledge and ability to make a comparison is due to little interest on this topic in the past. This study is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. Participants in the study were…

allow society as a whole to benefit. This would indeed apply to the current situation between Law Enforcement and many average citizens. They rightfully wish to receive equal treatment. Yet, does this conflict between the people and the institution negatively impact the benefit Law Enforcement can have on society as a whole? My own personal observation has led me to believe that in order for Law Enforcement to protect citizens, as well as themselves, they require the cooperation and trust of the…

Cops…” Kevin Johnson claims that videos of police officers are placing their actions under new scrutiny and changing the way that claims against officers are played out in court. Police have responded by trying to limit such recordings when they feel that they interfere with police actions. The fear that is most present in law enforcement is that these videos will cause officers to change how they behave in a life or death situation. To combat this, officers are now receiving training to deal…

The medium that I choose to convey my visual argument was a website. My argument was that police officers should be required to wear body cameras because they have helped in citizens get off, they are more beneficial then harmful, and the body cameras could prevent future instances of police brutality. My audiences for this visual argument is the general public so that they can be made aware of what is going on and develop their own opinions on the topic. The purpose is to raise awareness and…

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…

likeness in their community policing practices. In all three categories, both obtained similar results, though not always satisfactory ones, as for example, the low proportion of both sides that had written community police plans and evaluated their officers on their problem-solving projects. Thus, improvements should be made in areas with the lowest agency involvement in order to campus and municipal policing be successful, in case community policing becomes…