The Cop

I’m walking down the street, and it’s eleven o'clock at night. And, while i’m walking some kid tried to snatch my purse. So, I did what anyone else would and get my stuff back. I look at the kid and he looked like a mid 14 or 15 year old boy. He looks like he takes care of himself, or like his parents left him. He looks like he knows better, so I put him in a half-nelson. That ought to put him in check. Then after I took care of the things I needed to take care of,I dragged him by his ear and…

From Josh Berman and Allie Hagan comes Notorious, ABC’s newest legal drama. Based on the real relationship between Larry King Live producer Wendy Walker and celebrity defense attorney Mark Geragos, Notorious stars Piper Perabo as Julia George, a “tough as nails” cable news producer of Louise Herrick Live, and Daniel Sunjata as shifty lawyer Jake Gregorian. Together the pair shapes the news and the public’s sentiment by deciding which stories to air and how they air them. The premise sounds…

“I’m terrible with names,” my mentor teacher laughed. It was the first week of school, and I was in the 7th grade language arts classroom in which I would spend the remaining six weeks. “Oh, that’s totally fine. It’s the first week of school, after all!” I attempted to reassure him, although it didn’t really seem like he needed the reassurance. When you see upwards of 140 students in a single day, it takes time to get to know them and to associate names with faces. I understood that, and that…

Sometimes in life you may feel like you are living a movie or a television show. I’m going to tell you about a time I felt I was living the television show Cops. Cops is a reality show where criminals are arrested. I learned that the catchy title song “Bad Boys Bad Boys Whacha Gonna do When They Come for You’’ really means something after all. Being young, dumb and doing stupid things ended with me being arrested and taken to the Polk County Jail. I learned that by making the right choices I…

The song Good Cop Bad Cop by Starlito and Don trip gives insight to the widespread spectrum of corruption in police and their brutality against African Americans. This injustice is a topic of conversation that we, as a society, tend to shy away from in conversation due to the sensitivity the nature of the conversation has. Good Cop Bad Cop bluntly exposes the nature of the actions of police, without worry of…

The book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Force by Radley Balko argues that the police department are using more military like equipment for the same crime that have always been around; that can be settled with normal police equipment and tactics. We will learn that in today’s society too many police departments are increasing their police equipment that is involving into a war like mentality. The author continues on and talks about the war on drugs, and their…

I felt that mall cops needed to be better understood for the dangerous job that they have. Most people believe that mall cops just ride around in their segways all day, but on this day that wasn’t the case. People need to understand the risk that come with being a mall cop. There are countless dangers inside of a highly public place that is a mall such as lethal attacks with weapons or diseases. Mall cops have earned a negative image through movies or other irresponsible mall cops. Movies such…

drawn away from the positives. It is usa Within the past year alone, there have been hundreds of cops that have used excessive force on an unarmed individual. In 2015, 995 people have been killed by police officers. Now thousands of people all over the United States talk out against the legal system, based off of some cops poor decisions. Of course, there are some terrible cops out there, but not all cops are bad. Take…

“that’s a cop”. So I started to monitor my speed as I approach the parked car. I noticed that it was a cop that I passed. At that second that was then the cop turns around to follow me to the end of beamer. Instantly I thought the cop was running my license plate because they continue to follow without signaling me. Once the street light turn green, that was when the cop turns on their siren, signaling me to pull over. So then I pulled over into a gas station in front of me. The cop gets out of…

The Cop and the Anthem is a short story that includes interesting morals that the reader could use within their own lives. The story takes place in downtown New York City and is centered around a man by the name of Soapy. The decision to read the story based on its interesting title that the author had given it was a very great idea. Before reading the story, the reader probably expected the story to be centered around a police officer who enjoyed music, but after reading a few lines the reader…