Police Roles in the Media
RUNNING HEAD: There will be information pertaining to the roles of a police officer.
Police Role Descriptions in the Media
Karin Jordan
January 18, 2010
CJA/333
Professor Luis Martinez
Introduction
In society a great deal of citizens have form their own opinion about how they think about police and the entire law enforcement. Some citizens believe that police are crooked and not fair in their position. Some citizens believe that there are more good police than bad and that most police try their best to be honest in every situation that they encounter. Police have a very challenging job when trying to protect and ensure safety for the community that they are assign.
Police play multiple roles in their line of work. The following is: social servant or social worker, crime fighter, crime preventer, and an order maintainer. All the roles are difficult but the social servant role is the one that police play on a regular basis then the rest of them. Throughout this paper there will be an example to ensure that the role is clearly understood. The four examples will be provided by articles researched on the policeone website and will distinguish if they are real or just an image of the police. Image depiction is "a popular conception projected especially through mass media" (Dantzker, 2003, Ch. 1, p. 4, para. 5).
Crime Fighter
The first article that was read on the policeone website was dealing with gangs using cell phones and social networks to initiate crime. In Ontario, California, gangs used these two types of communication to orchestra crime, commit fraud, and bring in new members for their gangs. The cell phones and social networks are also targeted to traffic drugs while incarcerated. The situation that is taking place is out of hand because of prisoners being able to use prepay cell phones during their incarceration.
Lt. Thomas Goetz
Police Role Descriptions in the Media
Karin Jordan
January 18, 2010
CJA/333
Professor Luis Martinez
Introduction
In society a great deal of citizens have form their own opinion about how they think about police and the entire law enforcement. Some citizens believe that police are crooked and not fair in their position. Some citizens believe that there are more good police than bad and that most police try their best to be honest in every situation that they encounter. Police have a very challenging job when trying to protect and ensure safety for the community that they are assign.
Police play multiple roles in their line of work. The following is: social servant or social worker, crime fighter, crime preventer, and an order maintainer. All the roles are difficult but the social servant role is the one that police play on a regular basis then the rest of them. Throughout this paper there will be an example to ensure that the role is clearly understood. The four examples will be provided by articles researched on the policeone website and will distinguish if they are real or just an image of the police. Image depiction is "a popular conception projected especially through mass media" (Dantzker, 2003, Ch. 1, p. 4, para. 5).
Crime Fighter
The first article that was read on the policeone website was dealing with gangs using cell phones and social networks to initiate crime. In Ontario, California, gangs used these two types of communication to orchestra crime, commit fraud, and bring in new members for their gangs. The cell phones and social networks are also targeted to traffic drugs while incarcerated. The situation that is taking place is out of hand because of prisoners being able to use prepay cell phones during their incarceration.
Lt. Thomas Goetz
References: Black, D. (1980). The manners and customs of the police. New York: Academic Press. Dantzker, M.L. (2003). Understanding today 's police. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Prentice-Hall