Why Do You Want To Be A Police Officer Essay

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    Have you ever been in a situation where the police wasn’t telling the truth but you were, and nobody believed you? That’s why police departments are starting to make officers wear body cameras. Body cameras are cameras that are strapped on to you. Lots of people are now seeing how helpful body cams are. Police should be required to wear body cams because sometimes the police or suspect would lie about the crime, it’s better to see a full video about what happened during the crime rather than an image

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    It’s a early saturday morning. it is the first day of the academy and someone already yelling in front of saying “ Who told you you could be a cop?”. Heart beating fast of nervous, and with the confusion face like what did I get myself into. These people have chosen to put their own life at risk; but some say it’s a worthy cost because they say “we protect, we serve”. When I was a high schooler, I always wanted to help the community, I wanted to be more than a volunteer for the communities. I wanted

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    Explain how police sub-cultures can undermine an agencies code of ethics. Analyze strategies to improve the ethical environment and maintain high standards for all of police department personnel Police are looked at as a distinct subgroup (Herbert , 1998). Police sub-cultures is basically a rule between law enforcement and police officers saying that they have to be loyal to each other. It is not a real rule it is just something that they do. It is like the code of silence. When police officers become

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    to throw money to help fight crime by hiring more police officers. The hiring of more police officers is one of the policies that the traditional policing approach uses. People who are for traditional policing believe that this method works great because police officers are able to be at the scene of a crime quickly and it will make the lawbreakers stop committing crimes. (Worrall, 2015). However, I do not believe that hiring more police officers is an effective crime control policy. The deterrence

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    According to police, officers nobody has the right to record. Whether it is publicly, or an investigation being done outside on the street. Now a days we do not have the right to do anything outside in the public. My question is why? If we all have the right to do whatever we want. Many city journalists’ even people have been arrested for not even committing a crime but simply filming. You would ask me is this right? Well I would say no it is not right. According to the law which truly states (“Know

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    Militarization of Police force: It 's not the polices fault Would you like people constantly telling you how to do your job? A police officer deals with this on a daily basis. If you look at doctors or nurses, people would never tell them how to do their job, but it seems to be different for law enforcement. Police officers aren 't called to the scene during the happy moments in one 's life, they are called upon when people are at the lowest. Matthew Harwood stated that "militarization of police have been

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    to record police while they are at work. If you are found recording a police officer, there is a sentence of two to four years in prison, which is a class three felony. Meanwhile, the bill also makes it illegal to record of a private citizen, a class 4 felony, which carries a lower sentencing range of one to three years in prison. The reason why they make recording a police officer a high sentence is because they want to make people especially afraid to record police; what police do can be very

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    I stand here today to present you with the issue that needs to be addressed immediately: racial injustice and police brutality. America is base on the fundamental principle of equality and freedom to be individual. However, this cannot happen due to the unjust to we, the blacks. Our ancestors helped through the civil revolution, many great people- such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, President Obama that try to create equality for people. America is a place where people of different color

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    requirements that would be important to be important to be a police officer are attending police academy and dealing with the public. Both are important part in the process of becoming a police officer but field training has more practical, useful and hands on training. Which would be more crucial especially with the media now days and so many eyes on you, you would have to have the illusion of perfect. Befor you would even be able to start your training you would have to be at least 21 years of age and be

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    Emotional Survival For Law Enforcement by Kevin M. Gilmartin, is not a book that sugar coats the reality of policing but is written in a way to help police officers and those who want to understand the job. Not everyone is familiar with why police officers act the way they do and reading Kevin Gilmartin’s book provides an insider in the daily lives of police officers, the dangers the job and how it affects their families. The first chapters started off explaining the excitement of new recruits or those entering

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