The Cop

else was gathered. The cops were talking to the host of the party and calling the parents of the people at the party. I heard footsteps by the stairs when I realized that I was not down there with them. A cop came bursting into the room I was in and brought me outside. When the cop brought me outside, a drunken person from the crowd came up to a cop and grabbed his gun. None of the cops noticed until he shot the gun in the air. Everyone who was sober ducked and all of the cops pointed their guns to

On a dark, cold, rainy night in Pittsburgh, I see a suspicious figure walk past. I leave the cafe to see him checking over his shoulder as he enters the station. I resolve to follow the figure and phone the cops as I think he is up to something. Cautiously I follow this figure through the station and see him greet a friend. The ally gives the figure a key to a station locker. This is getting apprehensive so I sneak past the friend and follow the man to the lockers. As he enters the locker area he

Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express (1994) follows two cops, Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), as they navigate around their incidence with unrequited love and their ultimate decision to move on from such a disheartening position. However, the unique structure of the movie is that it translates both experiences separately, first with Cop 223, and half way through the movie the audience is introduced to Cop 663’s story. Throughout the film, though the main characters’ stories

"Suicide-by-cop" or "Police Assisted Suicide" are terms that have been the topic of conversation a little more than warranted these days. It seems that "suicide-by-cop" has been an ever growing phenomenon. The term "suicide-by-cop" is used to describe a suicidal person who consciously provokes police and engages in life-threatening behavior that will invoke or force a police officer to react with deadly force. This type of suicidal person relies on the decision of the police whether or not they

In the book, Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, deception is used for self gain. This is shown by the 3 main characters numerous times. I am talking specifically about Dave, Sean, and Jimmy. How each of them uses deception to get out of jail time, to getting the job done faster and easier, all the way to revenge. Dave uses deception to hide the real reason why his hand is bruised. Dave gets in trouble when he makes two explanations for his bruised hand. He says to Jimmy, “I was helping a buddy move

Surveying the dank interior of the room, I thought this old building needs redecorating. There were no locked doors and no obvious devices to record confessions. It looked like a disused, general office. There was nobody at the front counter when the cops dragged me in here, late last night. Right now, I was too tired to think straight, but later the whole scenario appeared very odd. A bright light shone directly, into my red-rimmed eyes. My clothes, saturated with perspiration, stuck to my body.

Police Brutality: War on Cops or War by Cops? Policemen have always had a particular place in society; they are expected to protect the innocent and serve their country no matter the cost for it’s what they signed up for in the first place. Their position gives them the right to use force against civilians during their duties. But when exactly is their granted right of using force considered police brutality? Police brutality is “the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish

commonly seen now, it began to grow evermore so following the tragic events of September eleventh. It evolved and transitioned into racially motivated arrests, detaining’s, and questionings both justifiable and unjustifiable. In the book, Good Cop Bad Cop: Racial profiling and Competing views of Justice in America, stated “In short order, however, as use of the term “racial profiling” became more frequent, the concept itself spread and became more diffuse and

Essay Lights flashing, sirens blaring through the streets of Albany, New York. A cop is involved in a high speed car chase. In order to escape the crook breaks through the fence of a local airport. The cops blocked him in the middle of the runway and sent him to jail. This is one of the high stress situations that cops are involved in every day. They have ways of dealing with these stressors. Cops know that there are stressful and scary things to come from working as a police officer. Even when police

my society. Cops were quite uncooperative. They gave several excuses ranging from "it is not permitted by law" to "there is no use of that". It was quite frustrating - I wondered how cops can be so insensitive towards us. No wonder why people do not like engaging with cops unless they are forced to. Can cops really be our friends? Ever? Later that week, I went to meet the lawyer, appointed by my society to help us get all the amenities as committed by our builder. He explained that cops get very unhappy