Police academy

We have meetings every Monday at 7pm at the Sterling Heights police department. We take roll call just like how police officers take their roll call at the beginning of their shift. We do hands on training with police and we do scenarios that involve domestic violence, building searches, felony stops, physical training, and defensive training. Things that we do to help us in our career…

On August 9th 2014 African American Michael Brown was shot and killed by White Police Officer Darren Wilson. This incident caused the issue of police brutality and illegal use of deadly force to be once be put into the national spotlight. The black community does not trust the police, use force against them or stop and search and the police mistrust stereotypes perpetrated from the media and because of the amount of African Americans who live in high crime areas, and recently the fear of…

POLICE FORCE Local Police Departments are a law enforcement agency that is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Police Departments play a major role in keeping the community safely and civilly organized. Your Local Police departments provide services and respond to calls of many different situations that one should pray they may never have to call for. They are the protectors of your local community and the ones…

wanted to be a deputy and were handed a badge. The process is more grueling now and has changed to fit the needs of the ever changing populations. Take a few of the agencies in the State of Texas. Texas has Sheriffs, Constables, City Police, and School District Police just to name some of the agencies. The hiring process, qualifications, and trainings may differ from agency to agency but they all have one goal, to enforce the laws. Each agency has its own system of phases for recruitment and…

Police Brutality: When is Deadly Force Justified? On February 4th, 1999 at 12:44 AM an unarmed black man, Amadou Diallo, found himself in a storm of bullets coming from four white New York City police officers. In total, forty-one shots were fired and twenty-one of those found their mark, as the twenty-two year old stood on the balcony of his apartment building. The four police officers never wore uniforms and drove through neighborhoods in unmarked cars looking for occurring crimes or people…

“Police are the only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence” - Robert Peele. Law enforcement is a diversified, expanding career with a common goal: improving quality of life in local communities through the reduction of crime and protection of citizens. Adequate law enforcement is the backbone of a civilized, developed society with an established and progressive legal…

The FBI National Academy is a prestigious institution that offers a wide variety of educational formats. The FBI NA is on the forefront of police education, evolving with the needs of local law enforcement agencies. While the FBI facilitates the educational aspect of the coursework, the real value can be found in the relationships forged with the other attendees. Creating a new, expanded network of police professionals and friends will serve to educate our counterparts on why supply-chain…

The use of force is one of the most severe and controversial types of police discretionary actions. It is defined as the amount of coercion required to control an unruly subject. Discretion is the ability to decide a course of action or inaction, and it is used in the criminal justice system when deciding how to intervene in certain situations and deciding what level of force to use in these situations (Wilson, 1968). The use of force an officer uses varies based on legal mandates, an officer’s…

different jobs within the federal government as well as within local police agencies. The FBI works on many important matters such as cyber-crime, terrorism, white-collar crime, organized crime, and the list goes on. Their job is to provide leadership and law enforcement aid to federal, state, local, as well as international agencies. The FBI has a mission to uphold the law and protect the United States from foreign intelligence. A local police officer has duties which are far less rough than…

to me the whole time I was reading the book. The author talked about the whole time how the academy was not the best way to learn what was really going to be happening in your life while you are out patrolling the streets. There are a lot of other things such as the actual interaction with people and the massive amount of drugs as the main problem of the in the city. The author talks about how the academy is a good place to lean about some of the things that you are going to need to now but is…