Police Officer Stereotypes

Law enforcement officers are human, and they do their best to hide their true feelings when it comes down to race or

Cops are staring to be racist like cops back in the day. Back in the day cops were very racist and didn’t care about black or any other race. They treated them like if they were animals, very cruel. They didn’t care about hurting people of a different color. There has been many cases nowadays about racist cops, like the case I was talking about earlier. In the book If You Come Softly Miah dies because he was running and some cops were looking for a black guy, the cops thought that Miah was the guy they were looking for and shot him. Another case that I remember is the Michael Brown case. Michael was a black guy he was very young and he got killed by a cop. He was just walking down a street with a friend and a cop just came up to them

Young black men who are shot by the police are very commonly justified, such as Michael Brown who was shot by police because he went for a cops gun inside a cops car. Slyville Smith was killed because he had a record of various arrests, and refused to put his illegally obtained pistol down when an officer asked him to. Where are the overzealous white cops who are out to take young black men into prisons for no reason? Where are the cops who kill solely because they're racist? Some may argue that cops who are pulling people over for “small” crimes like a broken tail light or slightly speeding is what causes more police brutality, but if a cop pulls a person over for a broken tail light, and they get out of the car with a weapon, is the cop really racist in that scenario? Or is the cop simply protecting himself and others around them? Racism in the police force is virtually nonexistent. I can agree that certain individuals will be racist, but one cop being racist in an entire department of cops does not mean there is an institutionalized issue, and can be cared for much easier; fire the

The conduct of the officers featured in the television show was similar regardless of race. The television show “Cops” features criminal justice professionals conducting the day-to-day work in the criminal justice system (Schmalleger, 2014, p. 6). In situations where the suspects acted combatively, the officers used force to apprehend the suspects. A Caucasian Officer used force to apprehend an African American suspect that attempted to flee. The officer threatened to Taser the suspect, but was able to apprehend the suspect by tackling him to the ground. Following this interaction, the suspect frequently cursed at the officer. A female officer was called for

The common stereotype of police officers is the cruel officer who abusers their power to make people's lives miserable. This is not the case for most officers who truly want to help protect the population for danger. Unfortunately, police brutality does occur. There is proof in cases that excessive force was used. It is impossible to catch every flaw in a person to predict if they would abuse their power as an officer prior to them earning their

Cops have been stereotyped in many different ways; from both good and bad perspectives, in one way or other cops are a part of everyone 's lives. As far as the bad perspective goes, most people believe police officers are nothing more than power happy jerks who do not have anything better to do than harass regular, everyday people. I personally have experience with this stereotype. Recently I was pulled over for speeding a couple of miles over the limit. While being pulled over, I reached down to lower the volume of the radio. When the police officer saw this he thought I was putting on my seatbelt, which I already had on. He proceeded to call me out of my truck. After I stepped out of my vehicle he told me once his lights were turned on it was to late for me to put on my seat-belt. The officer continued to say that I couldn 't afford a two hundred dollar ticket. Luckily he didn 't give me one. Many people also believe the only thing police officers do is eat doughnuts and sleep in their police cars all day. Many of these beliefs come from the way police officers are shown on the television. Other stereotypes include police officers being criminals themselves. Examples of these accusations are that police officers take bribes, take the drugs they happen to come across, or they just beat people for no reason. The horrific ordeal with Rodney King did not help the police force 's image at all. Although there are "bad cops  out there that do these crazy and

When one thinks of a cop. What should come to mind is “hero.” But nowadays cops are seen as people you want to stay away from. In the past, they were publicly displayed as heroes on television shows and parents, as well as children, knew the names of the officers patrolling their neighborhoods. However, times have certainly changed because police departments have increased the size of their force and tactics have switched and have become less about protect and serve, and more of a militaristic approach. Police officers have abused their power for too long because they have access to so many different types of weapons and there’s been so many cases involving police brutality that it needs to come to an end and they need to be held accountable for what they’ve done.

Police officers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States. In the mainstream media the stories of “Police Brutality” is extremely popular and race is always tied into the news stories without any justification. Anti-police rhetoric has been heavily publicized in the press for last several years. Any reasonable person would question the police force after watching the news and that’s understandable because media outlets in the United States tend to be very controversial. So the question remains, are the police racist or are they just doing their job?

The majority of the officers is committed to protecting and severing others and for the most part are very honorable and very virtuous people. However they are the assorted few that make unscrupulous decisions that can affect not only the officer, but also the entire agency. What affects one law enforcement agency affects all law enforcement agencies across this great nation in the world we live in today. Many times these officers will frame the argument in support of public safety over individual liberties. As each of us know we are living in a very different world than we did just a few years ago. It’s my professional experience that many whites have no knowledge or empathy for minorities who feel as though they have been stopped or beleaguered solely on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Equally many minorities sense that all police are predisposed and dishonestly target specific groups based on pigeonholes and incorrect representations. Combine this with the twenty-four (24) hour news cycle that propagates and emphasizes certain confrontations to attract viewership and provoke communities on both sides of the

The United States of America has many horrible police officers. This has created a stereotype that all police officers are terrible. One of the main reasons police officers have been target lately is, because many innocent people are harassed by them daily. There are multiple ways to classify these police officers as horrible being, but police brutality, corruption, and how they handle violent protest are three of many classifications.

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.

You may hear all around the world, how some people are considering cops to be racist because of what they have done to many black men. Are police really racist? or Are they doing a good job and keeping us safe?” Police officers are expected to understand and respect the law. They are also expected to work closely with people in the communities they serve, treat everyone fairly, keep track of the latest trends in policing, and maintain the psychological and physical discipline that effective policing requires.” (reference)  I think that it is true, Police should treat people equally.

The criminal justice system is made up of many fundamentals. Officers need to go through a variety of procedures in the hiring process, and once completed they need to go through a training academy. Many U.S. citizens have witnessed a broken criminal justice system throughout the years. Citizens observe officers causing a huge attempt of corruption. Corruption is occurring worldwide and is making our law enforcement system look unprofessional. Our criminal justice system is not all fully corrupted; only certain individuals are. Police get engaged with certain individuals and get brained wash with the mentality of doing the wrong choices and not getting caught because they know how the system works. The majority of law enforcement officers are competent, honest, professional, but there are some that use their license to steal and/or kill. Some police officers are involved with drug trafficking, involving innocent people with crimes, and causing harm to our society.

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

When we think of the police, we normally think of the brave men and women out on the street, enforcing the law, catching criminals, helping out the public in cases of emergency and making us feel safe in general. Most of the Police in most of the world is like that which is a good thing, However in the United States of America the police here are a bit more ruthless. Most of the police officers are very nice people and they really do want to help out in their community, but unfortunately there are some bad and corrupt cops in the system that will break the law and do some bad things. In the Modern world most bad cops are seen as racist and trigger happy. They don’t kill for fun of course but whenever they feel threatened they are trained to feel as though they need to take down their target since they are taught to make sure they don’t do something that will end up killing them. While nobody is at fault with these cases it is unfortunate that it does happen. Thankfully most of those cops are not as bad as the actual corrupted ones where they do business with drug lords and take their money just so that the criminals don’t get ratted out and so that they can continue their business. While there are some organizations that are corrupted the people in America do have power and a decent morality to do something about it. There are many organizations and cases that happened in the supreme court that has changed how the police behave and act when they are out on the