Why Do You Want To Be A Police Officer Essay

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    from the police. Until one day at about 4:20pm, I was sitting in my living room on the couch, overlooking my backyard. I saw eight Police Officers standing next to the 70 Marijuana plants that I was getting ready to harvest. I thought to myself, “Oh shit! They found all of my plants and now I either have the option of running out my front door and try to escape the police or go outside and get thrown in prison.” As bad as I wanted to escape I knew it would be impossible to run from any Police Officer

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    leadership as the ability to influence those who work for you to want to accomplish and strive to reach organizational goals and objectives. Those who influence others must understand the theories of motivation so that these theories can be applied, communicated and taught in order to motivate followers (Devine and Winter, 2012). Different from supervision, leadership implores the desires of those around you to want to succeed in meeting a goal through you the leader’s motivational abilities. Two of

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    Misinterpretations. Many people in the world are judged and stereotyped as liars. However, the people doing the labeling are the real liars. Who are the people being misjudged and mischaracterized as liars? Police officers. Thankfully, new technology is being introduced to allow the police to fight back. Body cameras are little cameras that are like having another pair of eyes. Once activated, they record everything one can see. Body cameras are a valuable invention as they assist in finding criminals

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    There are general powers of the police. As the police have authority and power, there is a certain limit or extent that they can use as there are laws set allowing them to only do certain things; this is set down in the codes of practice. The police also, are not able to discriminate you as there is a law set for that. This means that it is against the law to discriminate you for certain things. They cannot discriminate of: Age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion

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    Race, Ethnicity in Films, and the Criminal Justice System  Young black and Hispanic men, who are considered members of a lower socio-economic status are most of the time portrayed as delinquents in popular culture, especially in crime films. Films such as Talento de Barrio, which stereotypically portrays Hispanic men as gang members and drug dealers. Training Day, which portrays both black and Hispanic men as gang members and drug dealers. These two films are great examples to illustrate how the

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    unarmed African Americans and police officers have been broadcasted across the media. A large portion of these incidents result in protest and advocation against police brutality. There are a wide range of feelings and viewpoints people care to discuss concerning the topic of police brutality. Usually, when an African American person is killed by the hands of a police officer, people tend to explain how police brutality is the cause and culprit. Some people voice how police brutality is a matter that

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    Policing in Ontario 1. What are the different types of police forces we have in Ontario and how do they differ and how are they the same? In Ontario, we have three different types of police forces. They are the municipal which are the numbered divisions within a city, provincial which is the Ontario Provincial Police, and federal which is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Municipal police forces are established by the municipalities and are usually in every major city

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    In Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” there are a lot of characters who have different thoughts of what happened and why it happened. The LA uprisings happened after the video of a black young man being severely beaten by four white policemen was released to the media for everyone to see. During the uprisings people were getting shot by stray bullets and businesses were being destroyed, especially Korean stores. It was said to be one of the worst riots in U.S. history. Elaine Young

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    Student has teeth shattered by police officer after being harassed by him and is then wrongfully arrested Per Alexis Alpha and her family’s accounts, their group crossed the street to get to a bar. They passed between the officer’s car and the car he had just stopped (as it was the shortest path). Furious that they walked between his car and the one he stopped, he pointed at Alexis out of the group to come talk to him. He then began to verbally berate her. After initially keeping her cool and

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    Targeting Law Enforcement Police officers are not viewed with enough respect in the American society. Instead of being honored and constantly thanked for their sacrifices, they are constantly blamed for the wrongful shooting of "innocent, young, black males". Citizens taunt them at protests and constantly victimize the police every day because their role models, such as former President Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and Whoopi Goldberg have made them believe that the police are not their friends.

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