Why Do You Want To Be A Police Officer Essay

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    enforcement officials. On the news you hear about problems with the use of force in law enforcement, but you never hear the benefits about it do you? The reason why you never see any good things about the use of force is because people think it’s a racial thing, or it’s an excessive way to deal with people. The use of force is actually used as a defense tactic, people also assume officers are too rough, and it also prevents the suspect from harming the officer or another citizen. The use of force

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    Police Brutality When people see a white police officer that pull over a black person they think that police officer is racist. People think that police officer is going to kill the black person because they are different race. Their are some police officers that are not racist but just trying to help people and make sure that their country is safe for other people but their is police brutality in the United State that is making people racist. Police brutality from racism can cause a lot

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    great uproar between Americans protesting against police brutality. Many Americans, black and white believe we should protest against them and then there are others who believe we should not. The majority of Americans who protest against them are blacks. They believe police are only here to harm everyone, but I believe differently. I believe we should stop protesting against police brutality because it is causing to many riots in cities. Police officers shouldn’t all be categorized as a bunch of brutal

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    Ethnography introduction Police Officer, also commonly known as policewoman, police agent, or police employee is a warranted law employee of a police force by definition. Their main duties are to protect and serve the United States. They keep their streets safe and enforce the rules to keep our country under control. Police officers work under a department or a city. The ranks that police officers can be very between places. In a city the ranks can be; Chief of Police, Deputy or assistant chief,

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    through becoming a Military Police Officer I have been a child of an active duty marine my entire life. I have grown up military, living on a military base, attending school with other military children, all things military. The criminal justice field that I have selected for this project is a Military Police Officer, as we call it on base and MP. I believe that is the best form of police officer to be; no offense to civilian police officers. By being a Military Police Office one is able to serve

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    POLICE AND DETECTIVES If someone was looking for a interesting job than they would want to look into one thing. I have always wanted to be a police officer when I was little because when my dad told me that both of my grandpas from both my mom’s and dad’s side of the family were in the marines and my uncle and cousin are police officers and that he was also a police officer I wanted to be one too. Later I found out my brother was thinking of being a S.W.A.T member before I wanted to be one too

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    Police officers have been in the news and spot light a lot lately for how they have had some sort of misconduct on how they reacted in a certain situation. Which made me wonder if police officers go through enough physical and educational training and if we need to raise the minimum requirements? I think police officers go through a lot of educational training before they even get to be on duty. Before even getting hired as a police officer you go through a lot of interviews that will get you kicked

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    protected by men and women in the police force. Police officers must handle extremely dangerous situations like fights, robberies, or even riots. During riots police officers use many weapons to subdue rioters, but sometimes the less lethal weapons can be just as bad as the lethal ones. What do you think the world would be like if you didn’t have anybody to enforce the law every day, or when you are in trouble and there is nobody is there to come and help you? The world would be a completely

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    Thomas Rouch 03/03/15 Mrs. Greenlee Why Police Need To Be Respected More Many law abiding citizens such as police officers risk their lives every day. Police officers are hired to protect the citizens from cries of violence striking the citizens. The streets are a pen of rampant criminals out of control. These people are inhumane bottles of vile that cannot be trusted. These ‘vials’ will stop at nothing to kill someone no matter who they are. Police misconduct is seen as abusive behavior. A

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    It also goes to the government as well. The Fourth or IV Amendment is a well known law because the police can’t search you, it give you protection and you won't be arrested if you say no to a policeman that they can search you. The Fourth Amendment is a well known law because police can’t search you. It gives you privacy of what you do not want the police to know. It is not illegal if you do not want anyone to know because it is your privacy. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons

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