Reflection On Law Enforcement Officer

Each year citizens die in encounters with law enforcement officers. It is reported that “Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist” (Rucke, 2013). Although there is no official data base tracking these occurrences it is estimated that between 500 and a 1,000 people are killed by police officers each year. To put this in greater perspective this number equals approximately 5,000 since the 9/11 terror attack which is roughly the same number as U.S. soldiers

1980’s. In order to get more men and women in law enforcement they made a quick decision to change the standards on getting into the department and it came back to haunt them. The famous police officers known to be corrupt happened to be a group of nineteen Hispanic officers known as the River Cops. This group exposed the corruption that had penetrated the department since the influx of Cubans during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The police officers took control of the drug trafficking in each

the best officers who can work in their departments. It is only through application of the principles of ethics and integrity that a police chief or a county sheriff can identify these qualities in the potential applicants, and use them in the recruitment process. Second, ethics and integrity are important to a police chief or a county sheriff because these qualities help them to set the professional standards under which the recruited officers should work. Being the highest ranking officers in the

on law enforcement practices and community relations. This method of research would be an inductive approach by establishing a main topic then formulating a theory based on the research conducted. Journal Articles This article depicts the relationship between the community and law enforcement. The location of this study was conducted in Thailand, (Sahapattana & Cobkit, 2016). The study was broken down into four categories the demographic location, direct contact with law enforcement, law enforcement

participants in this study are police officers that encountered juveniles while on patrol. The methods used in this study required the discipline of police officers. Upon making contact with juveniles, police enforced the applicable laws. Methods such as cross population, survey and regression model have contributed to Allen’s’ study. These studies express gratitude in pollution’s between officers and juvenile’s. However, this study explained the process officers’ face in dealing with adolescents’

Even though law enforcement administrators “are constantly striving to preserve a positive, ethical image of their departments to the public they are sworn to serve and protect”(pg. 5), in the law enforcement world today, there are many problems that are occurring within the duties of police officers. These problems vary across a broad board. They may include personal issues that officers may be dealing with on a daily basis at home or issues that arise throughout police departments across the country

into the employees or officers that you are going to hire. The thing is that it is much harder than it sounds. People can change or lie on their interviews. So you will never be able to fully prevent every person who might break ethical codes from entering into law enforcement. What you need to do first is let all new officers be aware of what they are getting themselves into. New officers need to know that no profession demands a higher ethical standard than law enforcement. Whether or not there

order to establish and cultivate a relationship between the law enforcement agency and the community being patrolled. Moreover, community policing is composed of three analytical components; community partnerships, organizational transformation, and problem solving (Gardiner, 154, 2016). Notably, community partnerships are essential in community policing since they increase public trust and generate an enhanced relationship in law enforcement agencies better serving the community (Gardiner, 87, 2016)

Cordell, L.H. (2014). Policing the Police: Training, retraining, and yet more training are not the way to stop police brutality. LaDoris Cordell, author of this article, is a 1974 graduate of Stanford Law School. On April 13, eight years later, she was appointed to the Municipal Court of Santa Clara County by Governor Jerry Brown, making her the first African American woman judge in all of northern California. On June 7, 1988, Judge Cordell won election to the Superior Court of Santa Clara County

want to get involved with law enforcement? A question people have been asking ever since I started the Criminal justice Program here at NTC. Some people have given me grief for it. While others are proud of my decision. In this paper I will be providing my reasons as to why I want to be involved in law enforcement, what it is I want to do when I graduate. I will then be reflecting on myself, and then what I need to do in order to reach what it is I want to do in law enforcement. Finally, I will provide