Law Enforcement Officer

I agree that officer safety is tremendously important, unfortunately in today's society it has become more of an issue. Due to the overwhelming media coverage on the use of deadly physical force by police officers, officer safety has decreased. Law enforcement is constantly scrutinized by the media anytime an incident occurs, no mater how severe. Overall the public has to demonstrate more respect towards law enforcement, and law enforcement officers have to do the same toward the public.

As of today police officers are under constant scrutiny because of the way some officers might handle a situation under a moment of distress. Furthermore, because of one officer the public assumes that every officer acts this way when in fact they do not. To sum it all up a police officer once told me that people do not hate you the individual they hate the badge. This hate can grow from a simple ticket and individual gets for speeding. Nonetheless, officers must remain calm, respectful, and willing to put their lives on the life in the face of those who hate them. They do this every day and they take pride in the fact they get to save lives.

Police have many roles to take on an everyday basis. The main goal for an officer is to keep criminals off the streets and to try and maintain a safe environment for people to live. Many people disagree with some of the decisions officers make to enforce these rules and causes a lot of controversy. Today many people don't respect our police officers because of actions made by others. A major issue today is police use of force, stop and frisk.

Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like to become a police officer. Becoming a police officer isn’t an easy take because they have to risk their life everyday to protect and serve the community. They have to go through the dangers of arresting criminals when there is a chance that they could die. However, in today’s society only a small amount of police officers actually serve their community and protect citizens from danger. Right now, most police officers abuse their power to the point where they don’t seem to care for the safety of the community. They would usually arrest innocent people, make accusations, and even use their power as a source to show their dominance. If you think about, whenever you are stuck in traffic some

The world at large, with the exception of minor traffic stops, will never deal with police officers during the course of their day on the job. Only a small percentage of people, roughly 3%, will actually have any meaningful interaction with police for official purposes. This is a rather small number when you think about how many people there are in the US. Of this small percentage of people, none will likely ever know that officer outside of the uniform and job duties. This is not the case for the wives, girlfriends, and children of police officers.

Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like to become a police officer. Becoming a police officer isn’t an easy take because they have to risk their life everyday to protect and serve the community. They have to go through the dangers of arresting criminals when there is a chance that they could die. However, in today’s society only a small amount of the police officers actually serves their community and protect citizens from danger. Right now, most police officers abuse their power to the point where they don’t seem to care for the safety of the community. They would usually arrest innocent people, make accusations, and even use their power as a source to show their dominance. If you think about, whenever you are stuck in traffic

Police officers are often viewed as oppressors and unjust by the community, when in reality they are just doing their jobs. The job of a police officer is to apprehend criminals and detect crime, and the maintenance of public order and to the extend and complication of this duty police officers often need to make split second decision that is not often view by the public as what we call “self-defense” which is a right we all have as human beings and stated in the Universal Declaration of

I understand police officers everywhere have their own lives on the line, every time they suit up to protect and enforce the law amongst the population. I do appreciate the risk they do to keep us safe from absolute

Police departments have been in existence for a long time. Over the period of their existence, the police departments have a history of upholding the law as their main objective. Moreover, they protect the citizens and offer help through preventing and responding to any emergencies (Kesic, Thomas and Ogloff, 2012). With all these responsibilities, therefore, police officers often find themselves with a lot of duties and, as a result, they sometimes find it hard to have appropriate interactions with the citizens whereby some interactions even end up as deadly.

Growing up as a police officers daughter, I began to understand at a young age what it took to be a guardian of the citizens. My father took that police officer oath seriously because he decided to become member of the Houston SWAT team. Now that I'm older, and advancing my career in order to become a police officer, I am beginning to see my fathers perspective as what being a police officer and a member of the SWAT team really means instead of the cookie-cutter, 1980s Hollywood version. The book “Into the Kill Zone” by David Klinger, offers a cops eye view of deadly force, by including snippets of real officers views, including my fathers, of what it really takes to be a police officer. Not only is being an officers’ daughter important to me, understanding what it really means behind the trigger in deadly situations can do to a person mentally, physically, and emotionally. The main point I have gathered from this book and in my daily life, is that being a police officer is a truly rewarding job but unless you have an outlet to release your stress, troubles or frustrations, you're job will be just a job— not a career.

First, it is worth considering the personal experiences of someone who has worked for the police and seen it ‘from the inside’, so to speak. Writing for the Huffington Post, Garry Rodgers said, “My experience is the vast majority of police officers are sensible, controlled professionals who have a difficult job. Once in a while — yes — there’s a real sour lemon.” If anyone would know what the police, as a whole, are like, it’s someone who’s worked for them personally and has that personal experience. Theoretical knowledge

An officers’ job is not all guns and glory like it is perceived in movies and high crime television shows. What typically happens in a life of an officer is not as action packed as people tend to believe it to be. There are plenty of roles that come into being an officer. In my senior year of high school, I took criminal justice and during the semester, my teacher asked officers to come in and tell their jobs description and what a typical day is like for them. One officer came in with a bunch of tech gear worth thousand of dollars. She explained to us that she spent most of her time in front of a computer catching criminals online. Even though the roles of an officer can be different it does not mean that being an officer is not a

To me, the mission of police officers is to protect and serve citizens of the community, not just “prevent crime and disorder” (Dempsey & Forst, 2016, p.7). Furthermore, I believe police officers making neighborhoods safe, getting drugs off the street, solving an array of criminal cases, among other duties shows the public the extent to which their local and state law enforcement officers are efficiently performing their job duties, not just crime being absent (Dempsey, 2016). If this was the case, police officers would never be perceived has having acceptable job performance. Crime is inevitable.

Police Officers Police Officers serve and protect the citizens in their community but are seen as criminals who get away with everything. We have disesteemed their true character behind their badge. Because we are only exposed to the wrongdoing of the officer. We all see them as the killers, pigs, the people who eat donuts all day. We only assume their bad character due to their split second decision but we don't see the braveness and the risk taking of the officer.

No matter where law enforcement officers are they should maintain their professionalism. For instance, it does not make a good impression on the public if an officer is off duty and out with his buddies at a bar getting drunk and belligerent. If other patrons know he?s a police officer, it damages his reputation and public image as well as the department he works for. Police should also always be careful of what they say. You never know who could be listening. Perhaps a co-worker?s wife stopped in at the department store for something and another officer made crude comments that were over- heard by the wife. Not only is an incident like that downright rude and unprofessional, it could also be interpreted as harassment. Police officers must realize that they are expected by the community to maintain a level of integrity that others are not held to. This off-duty behavior could be misread as the officer being insincere about his job when on duty.