Officer Cadet

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…

Police officers need to know how to work in a decision-making process whether and whom to arrest or if both parties need to be arrested. The first thing police officers should do in a domestic violence case, is to understand the significance of the offense. Sometimes police officers have to do a dual arrest, due to victims are the ones who uses a physical aggression supposedly as a self-defense. Is up to the police officers to make a discretionary decision on a domestic violence case. The video…

The three most important codes of ethics for a law enforcement officer is; In their behavior toward members of the public, officers will provide service when possible, require compliance with the law, respond in a manner that inspires confidence and trust, and will be neither overbearing nor subservient. I feel this is extremely important because the response time for rural areas is longer compared to suburban areas and the treatment for the individuals varies in favor of the suburban citizens.…

what the role of a police officer in society varies depending on who is doing the perceiving and under what circumstances judgement is made. Not necessarily how the criminal justice system actually works, but rather how people think that it works, whether accurate or not. Expectations of a rookie cop making a difference, being helpful and full of energy are sometimes stereotyped as being cocky by the public, while being described ignorant and naïve by senior officers. “Citizens’ experiences…

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed, black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s killing, and the grand jury’s subsequent refusal to indict the officer responsible for his death, sparked national outrage and demonstrations across the country. Pundits and advocates alike saw the incident as evidence of a pervasive problem of excessive use of force by police against black males. In the investigative report that followed the killing, the U.S…

In the United State, there has always been wars fight for equality, known as the civil rights movement. For African Americans, it started in December 1, 1955, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person. Now, the main movement as of today is Black Lives Matter organization, Trayvon Martin got killed by a white person. Me as a person, I am a solution to this situation occurring with the civil rights movement. The current conditions in my environment is marches against fight…

SAN FRANSICO, CA- 27thApril, 2015 during a drive home in San Francisco, a 30-year old man accused his Uber driver of robbing him. The police investigated the scene to find that a driver had chased after a 30-year-old victim and kicked him to the ground. He then took the victims credit card and cellphone. Police could not confirm if the driver in this incident was actually an Uber driver. Uber is aware of the situation that occurred in San Francisco, and is working on investigating further…

Summary: Two years ago, forty-three Mexican college students vanished in the city of Iguala. A ghastly case has developed and President Enrique Pena Nieto is being accused of a scandal. “The investigation is bogged down in conflicting theories, contradictory statements, incompatible hypotheses and reports of forced confessions, planted evidence and debate over what happened to the bodies” (McDonnell and Sanchez). Two years have passed since the mysterious incident and loss of forty-three…

Bang! The sound of the gunshot echoed throughout the room. A woman let out a cry of agony, as she slowly bled out over the bedspread. The snow-white sheet was turning a crimson red. The man holding the gun walked over. He looked directly into her eyes, and fired once again. The killer chuckled as he stepped over her motionless body. Detective Joseph Walker entered the crime scene. This one was a mess. He counted eleven bodies, all of them workers at the Triscott house. The real victim was…