Why I Want To Become A Police Officer Essay

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    Wilson and George Kelling developed "the Broken Window theory". According to their theory they believed "that crime is the inevitable result of disorder" (Gladwell 155). The broken window theory is known as a disorder and as chaos, therefore, crimes become an issue due to the fact that the impression of no one being in charge causes crimes to happen one after another and worsening along the way. An example often used is a broken window, which leads to another broken window, to graffiti, to loitering

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    profession as a police officer it is important to remain true to yourself and others. By emplacing and respecting the following fifteen codes of ethics I believe I will be successful within my career as well as in my personal life. My mission to be the best police officers I know and can be, and to help and instill hope in peoples lives who have rather distasteful situations and circumstances. By having my code of ethics readily available it will help remind me of why I want to be a police officer and refresh

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    Police Brutality – Should Police Officers keep their guns at all times? (Police Training.) Police brutality has been a very controversial matter these past few months, with citizens supporting those who claim to be victims, and others who don’t. Though most people have been supporting the victims, some people who don’t can agree that police having guns with them in a simple investigation is a little over done. There are many instances where an officer can be seen, from a citizen’s camera, approaching

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    Shelby Whittle 21 April 2017 4th block Should Police Officers Wear Body Cameras? “If officer and citizens are being watched, we are both more liable to do the right thing” (Josh). If a police pulled you over and you noticed a camera on them, would it change your future actions? Many people say it would, and I agree. People tend to change their attitude and whole demeanor if they know they are being videoed or watched. That is why I think police officers should be forced to wear a body camera at all

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    Beth hasn’t stolen anything. Beth begins to feel hopeless as she is escorted to the main security office within the store. When a police officer arrives to the store, Beth is put into custody and sits in the back of the officer’s squad car. Beth is able to convince the police officer to take her into the store to prove she is innocent. Once Hannah tells the police officer what “really” happened, Beth is let off the hook and she is proven to be innocent. Beth is able to speak up for herself. She is

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    always a chance of an “officer worrying about the competency to handle an assignment. “If the assignment they are working on is causing individual stress the feelings of ‘helplessness and vulnerability” starts to happen when they feel the pressure of trying to finish an assignment. Officers start to feel the internal stress that everyone is counting on them to get the assignment they are working on in perfect working order. Since crime never sleeps the assignments that make officers internally stress

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    During one of the first days in class every cadet was asked why they were at the academy and why they wanted to be a police officer. My initial response to that question was that I wanted to help others. However, I would like to make clear what I meant by this, and point out that even though helping others remains being the primary objective, it is not the exclusive reason for wanting to be a police officer. Helping others remains being my primary reason, followed by the desire to have a divers career

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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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    The police must obey the law while enforcing the law." Which means that the police have a strict policy they need to follow to not get in trouble themselves. The career of a police officer is dangerously attractive, because of the adrenaline rush you get when you are faced with danger. Also the unknown challenges you can face that change from day to day. The research will describe the career of a police officer, what is required to become a successful police officer and the impact that police officers

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    warning given by police in the united states, to criminal suspect in police custody before they are statement against them in criminal proceeding. My other evidence is that it is important to say the miranda right to a criminals because if you don't say the rights to them while he or she is getting arrested than there will be no charges for the man or women and likely get released from jail and he or she can go free like nothing happen so that is why it is important for an officer to say the miranda

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