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    The role of a police officer can be rather intense at times, but they play a central part in the law enforcement system. Police officers monitor criminal activity, take part in community patrols, respond to emergency calls, issue citations, make arrests, investigate crimes and testify in court as needed. Although officers have a delegation of authority such as their chain of command, they are also given the discretion on which laws to enforce based on their trustworthiness, experiences, situation

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    For my topic I wanted to look at the psychology of law enforcement officers. After a little searching using my keyword simply as Law enforcement I decided to focus in on cynicism of law enforcement officers. Cynicism is defined the distrust of human nature and motives. As a future member of law enforcement this topic interested me. I was curious to know if this will be something that could affect me and if it does how would it affect me? The author of this experiment was Randall E. Osborne. His

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    As people, we sometimes take police officers for granted. They protect and serve us, arrest criminals and lay down their lives every day. I’m sure this profession that they are in is never easy but, is always life-changing. They affect so many lives in positive ways, they do jobs that we wish we had guts enough to do. Police officers accomplish their vision by ensuring public safety, Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage and ensuring the well-being of employees and their families. However,

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    Police Officers use of force has been an big issue for many decades, But has now made its way to mainstream. From news to social media there 's always a recent relevant story/ case on police officers use of force. In 2016 Baton Rouge man, Alton Sterling was killed do to Police officers use of excessive force. This sparked an outrage in the nation after Mr. Sterlings murder went viral through social media. The shooting led to protests in Baton Rouge and a request for a civil rights investigation by

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    sleep after a long day. Then all of a sudden, my radio blares, calling for me to come into the station. Well, I guess that’s okay, despite how tired I am. I lunge out of my comfy bed, hearing that one of my police officers is in trouble. The career I have chosen is police officer. A police officer is someone who enforces laws to protect others. This career interests me because I like a good challenge and I like to help people. Whether it’s unlocking someone’s car for them or protecting people and their

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    Police Officer Dilemmas

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    month that involves at least one other person. I am a police officer and have 27 years of experience, the last 10 years as a Sergeant. I am currently assigned to the 911-Communications Division where I supervise 20 full time civilian staff and 4-6 part time communications staff. We are responsible for all 9-1-1 calls (police-fire-ambulance) and administrative calls to our police department. We are a mid sized department with 196 officers and 88 civilian members with a city population or 120,000

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    Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson at 12:03pm, Brown reportedly held his hands up in surrender, yet the unarmed teenager was still shot dead in the streets in an unlawful killing by a criminal justice representative. Within moments of the incident social media was updated and the world had been alerted. “I just saw someone die,” was posted on Twitter followed by the photo of lifeless Brown creating local concern and hunger for information as to why the young man was gunned down

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    issues that involve social psychology. Being a police officer is a profession that encounters a lot of social psychology issues. One issue that all police officers have to encounter is prejudice. Police officers have to not be prejudiced against the citizens that they are trying to protect and serve the criminals that they must apprehend and also against each other. Two case studies that will be discussed are prejudice against female police officers by their male counterparts and racial prejudice

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    A study conducted by The Police Foundation surveyed 80 police officers regarding their power of authority. The survey revealed that the majority of police officers disapprove the use of excessive force. However, when situations escalate to a certain point that requires excessive force, police were asked a series of questions. They were asked questions about their attitudes regarding excessive force and their perceptions of behavior with their fellow officers. The results showed that, “Almost 25 percent

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    Due to the recent front-page exposure of some of our police officer’s salaries, the city has demanded that we reduce our current staff’s overtime drastically and hire new police officers. In response to the city’s notion we have received a detailed memo from the police officer’s union representatives citing that they are not feeling as if the immediate reduction in overtime is the right approach and have lined out some potential negative actions that could be taken. Both parties involved feel passionately

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