Officer Billstein Case Summary

Officer Marcus McNeil was a 29 year old resident of New Orleans, Louisiana who served in the New Orleans Police Department for three years.

It was alleged that Officer Northup did attend a meeting at the bar without direction from his supervisors or the Zone commander nor did he inform them of the results of the meeting. OPSA finds no violation of the Akron Police Department rules or regulations. Officer Northup did not receive nor did he seek compensation from the department from the meeting. He did identify himself as a police officer though and a good practice for him would be to communicate the issues with the extra job with the scheduler or his immediate supervisors at the very least but not doing that does not violate department policies.

On July 20, 2015, I Deputy Burge was dispatched to the Rhodes residence located at 705 CR 3580 in Wood County in reference to a burglary of a residence. Upon My arrival, I spoke with Hayden Rhodes who advised that his home had been burglarized while he was gone from the home. MR. Rhodes advised that there are no signs of forced entry due to the back door of the residence being unlocked.

On October 20, 2015, NYPD Officer Randolph Holder was fatally shot in the forehead in East Harlem pursuing a suspect on foot. The suspect, Tyrone Howard was granted into the diversion program of drug-treatment in Manhattan after pleading guilty to distribution charges. Arrested in October 2014 in a drug sweep at the East River Houses, Howard was charged with selling to an undercover officer and was recommended seven years of jail term. However, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin enrolled Howard in a drug diversion program instead of prison unaware of his previous criminal history. Failure to disclose the 2009 shooting, Justice Patricia Nunez who presides over the Manhattan drug court approved the plea agreement. Howard would

Personally I don’t believe that Chief Pirsig, should have even been given the working role of Chief. Being the Chief of police takes a lot of work and you must be able to make quick decisions when needed. Because the chief did not feel comfortable making unanticipated decisions in unsettled circumstance, I don’t think he should be the Chief of the police department. He clearly had so much anxiety about making a decision he was physically ill and had to take days off from work.

According to Use Of Force Report submitted by Officer Ratchford dated: (06/17/2017), she was assigned to 11A escort post. In sum and substance Officer Ratchford reported, when she exited the rest room as the probe team was entering the area. Officer Ratchford observed the Capt. Rivera, Capt. Khan, Officers Mitchell, Martinez and Maria relinquish the inmate to the probe team. The probe team guided the inmate to his feet at which time this writer recognized the inmate to be Wallace. Officer Ratchford did not witness or utilized force.

On December 29, 2015, at approximately 10:36 PM I, Deputy Ragsdale, was dispatched to the Wood County Sheriff Office lobby in reference to a theft of a firearm.

After the interaction between the rookie deputy and the night shift sergeant, a case was discussed in which I got to observe the two rookie deputies reaction that highlighted a topic in our class readings known as “reality shock,” or basically when a rookie officer experiences the unpleasant aspects of dealing with the public, the department in which he works, and in this

Deputy Bruce Pierson, a police officer from California, was recently called to the Promenade Mall in Temecula after receiving a call about a woman acting suspiciously in the parking lot. He told Fox5 that when he arrived on the scene, he noticed the woman ducking behind cars in the parking lot and trying to hide from his view. Pierson approached her and asked her what she was doing, and to his surprise, the woman lifted up her feet and told him she had been walking around barefoot for over two months. Pierson said that the woman's feet were extremely dirty and covered in calluses. The woman told him that she was ducking behind the cars to seek relief from the hot pavement.

Officer Jones a veteran police officer with the Smithville police department, was acting on an anonymous tip of drug activity at the housing project. Therefore, this gave Office Jones the inclination to proceed to the housing project and wait on said subject to appear. Once Officer Jones had seen the suspect he then stopped the suspect, searched him, and found illegal drugs on his person. Officer Jones shouldn’t have relied on a preliminary hunch. The Stop and Frisk of a suspect have to come with reasonable suspicion that a crime is or has been committed. The constitutional amendment that Officer Jones violated was the 4th Amendment, which clearly declares that a person has ‘‘The rights to be secured in their persons, their houses, their

Officer Buffington did a great job at identifying an article that was taken from a church during a burglary. Officer Buffington asissted Detictive Reece with searching a building for more evidence. A few more items were found which may be involved in other burglaries, which were seized. Officer Buffington processed the evidence to further assist Detective Reece.

Throughout history laws and regulations have formed for society to abide by to avoid a world full of absolute chaos. Ultimately leading to the creation of police officers who would enforce these laws and regulations. However, this is one of the world’s most dangerous and stressful professions. Mainly because police officers are expected to put their lives on the line every single day to protect and serve society. Even though this is the case, becoming a police officer has always been a goal of mine. Edward Conlon book called, “Blue Blood” provides amazing insight on what it’s like to be a police officer. This is because Edward Conlon was previously a police officer and based this book around his personal experiences while he was on the job. Since this book is based around first-hand experience and written as they were happening it made me enjoy the book even more. Mainly because these events weren 't over exaggerated. However, since the book is based around stories within stories, I sometimes found it difficult to follow. This book presented many examples of issues that the police face daily and showed that sometimes these issues aren’t easy to handle. Three specific issues that Edward Conlon faced as a police officer that relates to my issues in policing class is dealing with the mentally ill, using discretion, and police training.

Police officers are not considered health professionals; therefore, they may not be receiving adequate education to properly handle situations dealing with individuals with disabilities. Trainings that provide police officers with information regarding individuals with disabilities will allow them to have a better understanding of the different disabilities. Gaining this understanding will improve the attitudes and skills of these officers, thus reducing the mistreatment of individuals with disabilities. It has been found that CIT trainings have increased the level of knowledge and improved the attitudes of officers regarding individuals with disabilities (Cross, et al., p. 532, 2014). CIT trainings have also positivily affected the ability of officers to respond appropriately to situations involving individuals with disabilites (Taheri, p.79 2016). By broadening the training to provide information regarding other disabilites and not only training regarding mental illness, officers will be able to have a better understanding of how to deal with many different situations.

Although he holds the title of being a police deputy chief, he does not view himself as more superior than others. In fact, he is just an ordinary human being helping his fellow residents cope with challenging times. As a resident of Canada, living in Ontario, he feels a sense of belonging in this egalitarianism community, where residents are deemed of equal status, despite their vast differences in race, gender, values or age. Thus, he is interconnected with diverse cultures, languages, food, and arts surrounding him. Specifically, in this profession, he understands the culture of keeping peoples personal privacy is important in order to maintain the rule of law and respect others. This concept introduces contributing to the betterment of society by donating, volunteering and sustaining the pride each community holds in

I conducted an interview with officer Lucas Collins of the Merrimack County Department of Corrections. I asked him a variety of questions relating to his everyday job as a corrections officer and I also questioned him on current issues facing correctional facilities nationwide. Officer Collins has only been working at Merrimack County Department of Corrections for two years now, but within those two years he has gained a good deal of knowledge about working in corrections. He is also in the New Hampshire National Guard working as Military Police which also helps him properly do his civilian job more effectively.